Lucy Visconti, widow of Edmund, Earl of Kent. Visconti Lucy Commons of parliament....

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.

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

• 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)