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Petitions, commissions and inquisitions in the case of the claim of John le Scrope...
Catalogue reference: C 47/7/1
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This record is about the Petitions, commissions and inquisitions in the case of the claim of John le Scrope... dating from 1423 Sept 1-1425 Aug 31 in the series Chancery Miscellanea. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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C 47/7/1
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1423 Sept 1-1425 Aug 31
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Petitions, commissions and inquisitions in the case of the claim of John le Scrope of Masham to the family estates 70mm, 2-3 Hen VI
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CMR 13B/3
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- Landed estates
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John le Scrope, younger brother of Henry, Lord Scrope of Masham, petitioned in parliament April 1425 to have livery of those estates in cos Northumberland, York, Lincoln, Essex, Suffolk, and the city of York proved to have been entailed, in accordance with a conditional promise made by Henry V. The estates had been forfeit to the Crown in consequence of the treason and execution in 1415 of his elder brother for his part in the Cambridge plot of that year.
John le Scrope's petitions were referred by the council under letters of privy seal to the chancellor, to examine the truth of his claims, requiring the chancellor to issue commissions to Henry Percy and others to investigate and to return their findings into Chancery. In July 1425 the chancellor determined that Scrope might as heir in tail enter into the lands at his pleasure; he recovered the barony and was summoned to parliament as a peer from 1426.
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Chancery Miscellanea
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