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John ap Hopkyn (ap Hopkin); Wenllian ap Hokyn (ap Hokin), wife of John ap Hopkin....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/344/E1313
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This record is about the John ap Hopkyn (ap Hopkin); Wenllian ap Hokyn (ap Hokin), wife of John ap Hopkin.... dating from [? c. 1479] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/344/E1313
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1479]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John ap Hopkyn (ap Hopkin); Wenllian ap Hokyn (ap Hokin), wife of John ap Hopkin.
- Name(s)
- ap Hopkyn (ap Hopkin); ap Hokyn (ap Hokin), John; Wenllian
- Addressees
- Prince.
- Nature of request
- The ap Hopkyns complain that be the high trust and counsel of ap Jenkyn certain evidences of their lands in Trelleck were delivered to the abbot of Tintern to the intent that if Lord Herbert and his mother paid £20 to the petitioners at an appointed day then Lord Herbert and his mother were to have the evidences, and if not, the evidences were to be returned to the petitioners. The payment was not paid by which they required the abbot to deliver the evidences to them, but they cannot get them for dread and fear of ap Jenkyn, Jenkyn desiring to have their lands from them and their heirs by force and against their will, and has occupied a certain parcel by force, and because he could not have another parcel at farm, he has menaced, beaten and imprisoned them, and with the support of Vaughan and others has threatened to disinherit them if they do not agree to their will. They request that the prince and his council ordain a remedy so that their heirs may have their lands after their deaths according to the entail, and that [the abbot] be ordered to deliver their evidences.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Trelleck, [Monmouthshire].
- People mentioned
- [Edward Plantagenet], prince [of Wales]
- Robert ap Jenkyn, esquire of the prince's chamber
- Abbot of Tintern
- Lord Herbert
- John Vaghan (Vaughan)
- Thomas Benbidell, bailiff to lord Herbert
- John ap Jenkyn Madok.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.529-30 (calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736733/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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