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Not specified. King. A request that certain farms, customs, subsidies and other sources...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/24/1187B

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Reference
SC 8/24/1187B
Date
[1454]
Description
Petitioners
Not specified.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
A request that certain farms, customs, subsidies and other sources of income, listed in the petition, be dedicated to the expenses of the King's household, in preference to any other grants or assignments to be made from these sums; with a list of provisos, naming people - the Queen, the Duke of York, the Duke of Buckingham, the Duchess of Somerset - who are not to be prejudiced by this.
Nature of endorsement
A cest bille les commyns sount assentuz (The commons have assented to this bill). (on front)The king wills it, with the provisos contained in the schedule attached to this act.
Places mentioned
Duchy of Cornwall
Carmarthenshire
Cardiganshire
South Wales
Caernarvonshire
Merioneth
Anglesey
Southampton, [Hampshire]
Yarmouth (Great Yarmouth), [Norfolk]
Chichester, [Sussex]
London
Boston, [Lincolnshire]
Hull (Kingston upon Hull), [East Riding of Yorkshire]
Cokham (Cookham), [Berkshire]
Bray, [Berkshire]
Bristowe (Bristol), [Gloucestershire]
Suffolk
Essex
Somerset
Wiltshire
Oxfordshire
Berkshire
Kent
Warwickshire
the counte of Suth' (Hampshire)
Norwich, [Norfolk].
People mentioned
Margaret [of Anjou], Queen of England
Richard [Plantagenet], Duke of York
Humphrey [Stafford], Duke of Buckingham
Margaret [Beaufort], Duchess of Somerset.
Note
This petition and its attached list of provisos are enrolled on the roll of the parliament prorogued to meet at Westminster on 14 February 1454 (Rot. Parl. vol. V pp.246b-247b).
Related material

The schedule containing the provisos stipulated by the king is SC 8/24/1187A

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4063
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.246b-247b (transcription of petition and attached schedule on parliament roll: text unmodified)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061358/

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