Catalogue description Petitioners: Gruffydd (Griffith) Thloyt (Lloyd). Name(s): Thloyt (Lloyd),...

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Details of SC 8/75/3732
Reference: SC 8/75/3732
Description:
Petitioners: Gruffydd (Griffith) Thloyt (Lloyd).
Name(s): Thloyt (Lloyd), Gruffydd (Griffith)
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Griffith LLoyd complains that John de Haveringe imprisoned him in Conway castle for more than half a year, without him knowing why. He asks, for the soul of the queen, in whose service he was, that he might be allowed to answer any accusations made against him.
Nature of endorsement: At parliament and let the justiciar hear it; or he is to be ordered to inform the King of the reason for his arrest and detention in prison.
Places mentioned: Snowdon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]; Conway, [Caernarfonshire, Wales].
People mentioned: John de Haveringe; [Eleanor of Castile], Queen of England.
Note: Edwards, 'Llwyd', pp.589-601, dates this petition to 1296. Petitions Relating to Wales p.110 confirms this dating, but is more cautious, dating to c. 1296.
Date: [c. 1296]
Related material:

For another petition from the same petitioner apparently on the same matter, see SC 8/319/E388

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/164/8154

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/158/7854
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 9165
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.110 (calendar of petition)

Sir Gruffydd Llywyd, J.G. Edwards, (English Historical Review, XXX, pp. 589-, 1915), p.600 (edition of petition)

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