Catalogue description Petitioners: Reginald de Grey of Ruthin. Name(s): de Grey, Reginald ...

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Details of SC 8/19/919
Reference: SC 8/19/919
Description:
Petitioners: Reginald de Grey of Ruthin.
Name(s): de Grey, Reginald
Addressees: King and his council in parliament.
Nature of request: Reginald de Grey of Ruthin states that King Edward, the great-great-grandfather of the present king, granted to Reginald de Grey, the petitioner's great-grandfather, and his heirs, the castle of Ruthin, the cantref of Dyffryn Clwyd and the lands which belonged to Wenthlian de Lacy in the same cantref and in the cantref of Englefield, to hold of the king by a whole service; and that he and his ancestors have held them until recently, in an inquisition before John de la Pole, Justiciar of Chester, in the county of Flint, it was presented maliciously by certain Welshmen that Reginald de Grey, to whom these lands were given, intruded into certain lands and tenements in the cantrefs of Dyffryn Clwyd and Englefield, wrongly and by colour of his office while he was Justiciar of Chester. A process was begun on this and is still pending. He asks that it be seen and examined, and the business decided by the king's ordinance.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Ruthin, [Denbighshire, Wales]; Deffrencloit (Dyffryn Clwyd) cantref, [Denbighshire, Wales]; Englefield (Tegeingl) cantref, [Flintshire, Wales]; Flintshire, [Wales]; Wales.
People mentioned: Edward [I], King of England; Reginald de Grey, Justiciar of Chester; Wenthlian de Lacy; John de la Pole, Justiciar of Chester.
Note: Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.70a (no. 4) assigns this petition to the parliament held at Westminster at the quinzaine of Easter 2 Richard II (1379).
Date: [? 1379]
Related material:

For a duplicate petition see SC 8/19/920

For a related petition see SC 8/19/918

For a related petition see SC 8/113/5628

For an earlier document concerning the same lands see SC 8/113/5603

For an earlier petition concerning the same lands see SC 8/113/5602
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 3743
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.182 (calendar of related petition)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.70a (no.4) (full edition of duplicate petition)

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