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Details of SC 8/344/E1312
Reference: SC 8/344/E1312
Description:
Petitioners: John Parker the younger of Chepstow.
Name(s): Parker, John
Addressees: Prince.
Nature of request: Parker shows that Lewes, Rede and Walter are indebted to him as appears by various obligations of theirs, but although he has laboured to be paid the sums because he is of little power and is unable to sue the process of law against them because they are of so great might and power. He requests that the prince will consider the premises and letters missive commanding them to content and pay the petitioner or to appear before the prince and his council at a certain day to answer the petitioner of such things that he will show and lay against them according as right appears.
Nature of endorsement: 30 April, 22 Edw.Letters to content the party fully, or to appear the [...] after the 15 May [...].
Places mentioned: Chepstow, [Monmouthshire, Wales]; Magor, [Monmouthshire, Wales]; Redwick, [Monmouthshire, Wales]; Westminster.
People mentioned: [Edward Plantagenet], prince [of Wales]; William Lewes of Chepstow; Morgan Rede of Magor; William Walter of Redwick.
Note: The petition is dated to 1482 because the response has a dating clause dating it to 30 April 22 E[Edward IV].
Date: 1482
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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.529 (slightly inaccurate calendar of petition)

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