Catalogue description Principality of Wales: Justice of North Wales: Anglesey Plea Roll

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Reference: WALE 16
Title: Principality of Wales: Justice of North Wales: Anglesey Plea Roll
Description:

This series consists of a single plea roll of 25 rotuli recording proceedings before the Justice of North Wales, or his lieutenant, for the county of Anglesey between 24 September 1509 and 30 June 1516.

The civil pleas consist mainly of debt and assizes of novel disseisin, while there are also some indictments for felony and appeals of breach of the peace. There are separate gaol delivery sections for most of the sessions. There are occasional references to earlier proceedings in the sheriff's tourn.
Date: 1509-1517
Related material:

Other Anglesey plea rolls are in JUST 1/1154
Separated material:

This roll is the earliest of a series of 151 rolls, running to 1830, formerly in the Public Record Office. The remainder were all transferred to the National Library of Wales in 1962.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Justiciar of North Wales, 1284-1542
Physical description: 1 roll(s)
Access conditions: Open
Custodial history: The roll was apparently recovered by purchase from Edward H Owen, of Ty Coch, Caernavon in 1890. It was apparently one of only two survivors of 'a great quantity of ancient records' sold as scrap parchment to a David Williams, of Turkey Shore, Caernavon, 20 or 30 years before W H Black surveyed the records of the principality of Wales in 1839.
Publication note:

An earlier list of the whole series to 1830 is in Lists and Indexes, IV: Plea Rolls (1963 reprint), p 95.
Administrative / biographical background:

All the sessions were held at Beaumaris, and for most of the period the justice was Sir Charles Brandon, who became viscount Lisle in 1513 and duke of Suffolk in 1514.

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