Catalogue description Petitioners: William Bulkely (Bulkeley), esquire. Name(s): Bulkely (Bulkeley),...

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Details of SC 8/94/4661
Reference: SC 8/94/4661
Description:
Petitioners: William Bulkely (Bulkeley), esquire.
Name(s): Bulkely (Bulkeley), William
Addressees: Commons of the present parliament.
Nature of request: Bulkely requests the commons to pray to the king by the assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal in the present parliament that he be allowed to accept all manner of offices within Wales and their marches and be able to accept all manner of liberties, freedoms and franchises and customs therein, he having married Ellen who is half Welsh, and it being ordained in the reign of Henry IV that no Englishman marrying a Welsh woman be put in office in Wales.
Nature of endorsement: [On face]Let this bill be sent to the Lords.[On dorse, none]
Places mentioned: Wales; Welsh Marches.
People mentioned: Ellen [Bulkely (Bulkeley)], wife of the petitioner, and daughter of Gwillym ap Gruffuth; Gwillym ap Gruffith; William Stanley, knight.
Note: The petition dates 1444 as a petition from English towns asking for the upholding of statutes against the Welsh specifically refers to this petition, and requests that Bulkely be excluded from the prohibitions (Rot. Parl., vol. V, p.104a-b (no.II)).
Date: [1444]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 784
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.146-7 (full summary of petition but misnumbered as SC 8/94/4660)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.104 (no.II) (petition from English towns asking for the upholding of statutes against the Welsh, with Bulkely being specifically excluded from this, and with reference to this petition)

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