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Lucy Visconti, widow of Edmund, Earl of Kent. Visconti Lucy Commons of parliament....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/24/1161
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/24/1161
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1421
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Lucy Visconti, widow of Edmund, Earl of Kent.
- Name(s)
- Visconti, Lucy
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- Lucy, widow of Edmund, Earl of Kent, complains that she is being harassed and impleaded by her late husband's creditors, because of a false allegation (which they made in the last parliament at Westminster, and are also pursuing at common law) that since his death she had received £12,000, which the Duke of Milan had granted to her husband as her dower. She asks the commons to ask the king to ordain, by authority of parliament, that she might be quit and discharged of her husband's debts, and of all suits and actions arising from them, and that she might be able to bar all such suits.
- Nature of endorsement
- Soit baille as seignurs (It is to be delivered to the lords) (on front).Be it remembered that this petition and its response are enrolled on the roll of the parliament held at Westminster on 2 May in the ninth year of the reign of King Henry, the fifth since the conquest.
- Places mentioned
- Shrovesbury (Shrewsbury), [Shropshire]
- Loundres (London)
- Scluce (Sluys) (Sluis), [Belgium]
- Milan, [Italy].
- People mentioned
- Edmund [de Holand], Earl of Kent
- [Henry IV], King of England
- [Thomas of Lancaster], Duke of Clarence
- John Bache, esquire
- Thomas [Arundel], Archbishop of Canterbury
- [Philip Maria (Filippo Maria) Visconti], Duke of Milan.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- As it says on the dorse, this petition was presented to the parliament held at Westminster on 2 May, 9 Henry V (1421).The exemplification of the petition, CPR 1416-22 p.379, is dated at Westminster, 12 July 1421.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The petition from the Earl of Kent's creditors mentioned in this petition is SC 8/24/1162B
For a related petition, see SC 8/23/1126
A list of creditors of the Earl of Kent is SC 8/24/1162A
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 4643
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen V, vol. II, 1416-1422, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.379 (exemplification of the enrolment of this petition and its response, at the request of the petitioner)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.143b-145b (transcription of petition on parliament roll, with response and enrolment of related deed: text unmodified)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061329/
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