Catalogue description Petitioners: Walter Amyas; John Abraham; John Donne; John Prat; Ralph de Walsham. ...

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Details of SC 8/183/9104
Reference: SC 8/183/9104
Description:
Petitioners: Walter Amyas; John Abraham; John Donne; John Prat; Ralph de Walsham.
Name(s): Amyas; Abraham; Donne; Prat; de Walsham, Walter; John; John; John; Ralph
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: The petitioners state that the earl and countess of Pembroke held the lordship and castle of Abergavenny of them for the terms of their life, with reversion to themselves. After the earl's death this was granted to the countess as before, but after her death, the escheator of Herefordshire inquired into her lands, and certified that he did not know of whom this was held, or to whom the reversion belongs. They therefore request that another writ be issued to correct these details.
Nature of endorsement: [None.]
Places mentioned: Bergavenny (Abergavenny), [Monmouthshire, Wales]; Wales; Herefordshire.
People mentioned: Anne [de Hastings], Countess of Pembroke; John de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke; Edward [III], King of England.
Note: The chancery warrant with which this document was enclosed was dated at Westminster on 9 May; no year is specified, but it was addressed to the chancellor, Michael de la Pole (March 1383-October 1386). Anne, Countess of Pembroke died on 3 April 1384, and given that the petition states that the inquest ordered on her death had already taken place, it is highly unlikely that this would have been completed quickly enough for the resultant warrant to date to 9 May 1384, only a month later. Other letters were issued from Westminster on 9 May 1385, while the king was at Clarendon on 9 May 1384 and Windsor in 1386 (the only other dates possible given the address to de la Pole).
Date: [1385]
Related material:

For a related petition by some of the same petitioners and others, see SC 8/342/16104

For a related petition by some of the same petitioners and others, see SC 8/342/16103

For another petition from these petitioners see SC 8/257/12848

For a related petition, see SC 8/252/12586

For a related petition see SC 8/224/11176

For a related petition by the same petitioners, see SC 8/215/10710

For a related petition by some of the same petitioners and others, see SC 8/188/9400

For another petition from these petitioners see SC 8/185/9209

For a related schedule, see SC 8/185/9208

For the chancery warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed see no.1 of C 81/1355
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
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.304-5 (calendar of petition, with further references)

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