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Petitioners

Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland.

Name(s)

Percy, Earl of Northumberland, Henry

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, who is under age and being held in Scotland, asks the king to remember that it has pleased him to restore him to the name, estate and inheritance of Earl of Northumberland, notwithstanding the forfeitures of his father and grandfather, and asks that this ability to inherit might be enacted in parliament, according to a form given in the petition.

Nature of endorsement

When this petition had been read openly in this present parliament, the king, of his special grace and with the authority of the same parliament, granted the petition in all points; provided that Henry Percy sues to the king's Chancery and shows there what he can prove to have been given in tail to the ancestors mentioned in the petition, as is contained in the petition, by fine, letters patent of kings, or by other records, before he enters into any lands or tenements, or any other rights or possessions, which he claims to be entailed to him. Saving always to the king and his heirs the forfeitures of all the lordships, castles, manors, lands, tenements, rents, services, reversions, fees, advowsons, hundreds, wapentakes, court leets, parks, chases, woods, wardships of castles and of forests, liberties, franchises, and other rights or possessions, of which Henry Earl of Northumberland or Henry his son were seised, jointly or severally, at the time of their forfeiture or afterwards, in fee simple, or of which others were enfeoffed to their use, or to the use of one of them, at the time of the forfeiture or later, in fee simple.

Places mentioned

Scotland.

People mentioned

Henry Percy, father of petitioner

Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, grandfather of petitioner

[Henry IV], King of England.

A duplicate petition which is probably a first draft of this one, is SC 8/85/4250