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

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Details of SC 8/113/5628
Reference: SC 8/113/5628
Description:
Petitioners: Reginald de Grey of Ruthin.
Name(s): de Grey, Reginald
Addressees: King and the lords of parliament.
Nature of request: Grey states that his grandfather was granted the castle of Ruthin, the cantref of Dyffryn Clwyd and the lands that were Lacy's in Tegeingl cantref. He is now maliciously challenged in an inquisition before de la Pole by Welsh people that his grandfather acquired the lands wrongfully by colour of his office as justice of Chester. He requests that an end is put to this business by right and reason for the king and for his inheritance.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Ruthin, [Denbighshire, Wales]; Dyffryn Clwyd cantref, [Denbighshire, Wales]; Tegeingl (Englefield) cantref, [Flintshire, Wales]; Flintshire, [Wales].
People mentioned: Edward I King of England; Reginald de Grey, justice of Chester, grandfather of the petitioner; Wenthlian de Lacy; John de la Pole.
Note: The petition can be dated to c. 1379 as a variant of this petition is dated to a petition given at the parliament held at Westminster at the quinzaine of Easter 2 Richard II (Rot. Parl., vol. III, p.70a (no. 4).
Date: [c. 1379]
Related material:

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

For a duplicate of SC 8/19/919 see SC 8/19/920

For a related petition see SC 8/19/919

For an apparent duplicate petition see SC 8/19/918

For transcript, see no.31 of PRO 31/7/107
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 3741
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.182-3 (calendar of 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 a variant of this petition)

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