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William Walshale (Walsall). Walshale (Walsall) William King. William Walshale requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/23/1101

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Reference
SC 8/23/1101
Date
[1399]
Description
Petitioners
William Walshale (Walsall).
Name(s)
Walshale (Walsall), William
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
William Walshale requests that he might continue to enjoy various annuities and offices granted to him by Richard II, notwithstanding any grant of them previously made to anyone else.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] This petition was granted by [the king].
Places mentioned
Delamere forest, [Cheshire]
Lapley, [Staffordshire]
Halesowen, [Worcestershire]
Roweley (Rowley Regis), [Staffordshire]
[Dynevor], [Carmarthenshire, Wales].
People mentioned
Richard [II], King of England
Prior of Lapley
Abbot of Halesowen.
Note
Datable to 1399 with reference to CPR 1399-1401 pp. 116, 120.Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.544a is from the roll of the parliament of January 1404, and is clearly later than this petition.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8663
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. I, 1399-1401, (Public Record Office, 1903), pp. 116, 120 (confirmation of grants apparently in response to petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.544a (mention of the petitioner's annuity from the alien priory of Lapley, in response to a common petition about alien priories)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061267/

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