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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Richard Hankeford (Hankford), esquire; Elizabeth Hankeford, wife of Richard Hankford....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/24/1181
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This record is about the Richard Hankeford (Hankford), esquire; Elizabeth Hankeford, wife of Richard Hankford.... dating from 1422 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/24/1181
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1422
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Richard Hankeford (Hankford), esquire; Elizabeth Hankeford, wife of Richard Hankford.
- Name(s)
- Hankeford (Hankford); Hankeford, Richard; Elizabeth
- Addressees
- King and lords spiritual and temporal of parliament.
- Nature of request
- Richard Hankeford, esquire, and Elizabeth his wife complain that on the Friday after the last feast of St Martin, during the present parliament, William Fitzwaryn and Richard Laken, with a great number of Welshmen, attacked their castle of Whittington by night, seized it and are still holding it. They ask that by authority of this parliament proclamations might be made in Shropshire and the Welsh marches, and by the Sheriff of Berkshire, that William Fitzwaryn and Richard Laken are to appear or surrender themselves in Chancery within fifteen days following the proclamations to answer to the king for the forcible entry and other crimes. And if they do not, they should be convicted of these, and incur the ordained penalties. And it should also be contained in the proclamations that those who feed, sustain or conceal them and their allies in the castle, after the proclamation has been made, are to incur the aforesaid penalty. And if they do appear, that the Chancellor might have power to hear and determine the matter; and that he might grant the writs to make the proclamations, and all others which are necessary.
- Nature of endorsement
- The response to this petition, presented in the parliament held on the Monday before the feast of St Martin in the first year of the reign of King Henry, the sixth since the conquest, appears on the schedule sewn to the same petition.
- Places mentioned
- Whittington, [Shropshire]
- Welsh March
- Wales
- le counte de Salop (Shropshire)
- Berkshire.
- People mentioned
- Fulk Fitzwaryn (Fitz Waryn), knight, grandfather of Elizabeth Hankeford
- Fulk [Fitzwaryn (Fitz Waryn)], son of Fulk Fitzwaryn
- Fulk [Fitzwaryn (Fitz Waryn)], son of the younger Fulk Fitzwaryn
- William Fitzwaryn (Fitz Waryn)
- Richard Laken, knight.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- As it says on the dorse, this petition was presented in the parliament of November 1 Henry VI (1422).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The schedule containing the response to this petition is SC 8/24/1182
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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 4225
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.192b-193b (no.2) (full edition of original petition and of attached schedule)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061351/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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