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Details of SC 8/2/75
Reference: SC 8/2/75
Description:
Petitioners: Thomas Hastang (Hastings) and Maud Hastings wife of Thomas Hastings, widow of John Lestrange.
Name(s): Hastang (Hastings); Hastings, Thomas; Maud
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: The petitioners request that they have the wardship of the heir of Madoc ap Griffith Maillor as John Lestrange held it, and that they may have the marriage of the heir, as no marriage contract can be made without his consent by a letter under his seal, and that he accept this because the children were already betrothed during their fathers' lives and for the sum of £50 paid by the petitioners. The marriage of the ward had been given by Madoc to John Lestrange, lord of Knockyn and Maud, and he was betrothed to Elizabeth their daughter for £50 with the consent of the king. Following Madoc's death his lands were seized into the king's hands, and the wardship granted to John Lestrange until the heir was of age. After the death of Lestrange, the king granted the wardship to Edmund Hakelute.1)
Nature of endorsement: Because it is learned by letters patent of the king made while he was prince of Wales that he committed to John Lestrange the custody of the lands and tenements in Wales contained in the petition to be held until the coming of age of the heir of Madoc ap Griffith, and rendering at the Exchequer of Caernarfon £59 13s. 7d. qu.. It seems to the council that the wardship be resumed into the hand of the king, and delivered to the executors of John's will, holding in the form beforesaid, saving the marriage to the king which is excepted in the letters.2) Afterwards this petition was recited with the response in the presence of the great council, and the response made appears on the dorse of the petition sewn to this.
Places mentioned: Kaenarvan (Caernarfon), [Caernarfonshire, Wales].
People mentioned: John Lestraunge, lord de Knockyn (Lestrange); Madoc ap Griffith Maillor; [Griffith son of Madoc ab Griffith]; Elizabeth [Lestrange], daughter of John and Maud Lestrange; Edmund Hakelute.
Note: The petition is dated to 1315 by the title in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.294, noting these to be for the parliament held at Westminster in the octave of Hillary, 8 Edw. II. However,Rees (Petitions Relating to Wales, p. 25) thought it was earlier, perhaps after 1309.
Date: [1315]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 4072
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), pp. 24-5 (full translation)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.306a-b (no. 74) (transcription of petition on parliament roll)

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