Catalogue description Petitioners: John Abraham, clerk, John Donne, clerk, John Prat, clerk, and Ralph de...

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Details of SC 8/188/9400
Reference: SC 8/188/9400
Description:
Petitioners: John Abraham, clerk, John Donne, clerk, John Prat, clerk, and Ralph de Walsham.
Name(s): Abraham; Donne; Prat; de Walsham, John; John; John; Ralph
Addressees: King.
Occupation: clerk
Nature of request: The petitioners request that the king do right to them with regard to certain manors and other property formerly held by Mary de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke.[Despite the damage to the petition, it describes in detail the background to, and the events surrounding, the succession to various parcels of the earldom of Pembroke following the deaths of John de Hastings, his under-age son, and the late countess, and refers to the petitioners' involvement and their rights to certain lands].
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Hartley, Kent; Luddesdown, Kent; Wickham, Kent; Foxley, Norfolk; Saxthorpe, Norfolk; Gooderstone, Norfolk; Hockham, Norfolk; Burgh Apton, Norfolk; St Mary at Hill, London; Billingsgate ward, London; St Andrew Hubbard, London; Wales; Ashill, Norfolk; Tynby (Tenby), [Pembrokeshire, Wales]; Kylgarren (Cilgerran), [Pembrokeshire, Wales]; Oysterlowe (Ystlwyf) commote, [Carmarthenshire, Wales]; Gascony, [France]; Tottenham, Middlesex; St Paul's, London; Charterhouse, London; Pembroke, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]; Pembrokeshire, [Wales]; Abergavenny, [Monmouthshire, Wales]; Ruthin, [Denbighshire, Wales]; The Mote (in Cheshunt), Hertfordshire; East Hanningfield, Essex; Croyndon (Long Crendon), Buckinghamshire; Blunham, Bedfordshire; Kempston, Bedfordshire; Herefordshire; Ravensthorpe, [North Riding of] Yorkshire; Gressenhall, Norfolk.
People mentioned: Mary de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke; Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke; Lawrence de Hastings; Edward II, King of England; Elizabeth Redcomyn; Joan [Strabolgy (Strathbogie)], wife of David Strabolgi; David Strabolgi (Strathbogie); John de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke, Lord Wexford and Lord Bergavenny; Walter Amyas, clerk; David Perkin, clerk; Thomas Cryklad (Cricklade); Edward III, King of England; William de Beauchamp; William de Clynton; Anne [de Hastings], wife of John de Hastings; John [de Hastings], son of John de Hastings; Reginald de Grey of Ruthin; Richard Talbot; Elizabeth [le Scrope], wife of John le Scrope; John le Scrope; Philippa [Halsham], wife of John Halsham; John Halsham; William la Zouche; Hugh [de Hastings], son of Hugh de Hastings; Hugh de Hastings; John [of Gaunt], Duke of Guyenne (Aquitaine) and Duke of Lancaster.
Note: Dated on the guard, and by Rees, to the period c. 1390-1, following the deaths of a number of the people named within.
Date: [c. 1390-c. 1391]
Related material:

For a related petition by some of the same petitioners and others with which this petition may have been enclosed, see SC 8/342/16104

For a related petition by some of the same petitioners and others with which this petition may have been enclosed, 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 another petition from these petitioners see SC 8/185/9209

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

For another petition by some of the same petitioners on a related matter, see SC 8/183/9104

For the chancery warrant with which this petition may formerly have been enclosed see no.6884 of C 81/521
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.313-16 (edition of petition, with discussion and references)

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