Margaret Cornyssh (Cornish), wife of Thomas Cornish of Uxbridge in Middlesex. Cornyssh...

Petitioners

Margaret Cornyssh (Cornish), wife of Thomas Cornish of Uxbridge in Middlesex.

Name(s)

Cornyssh (Cornish), Margaret

Addressees

King and the lords spiritual and temporal in parliament.

Nature of request

The petitioner states that her husband was maliciously indicted with Herford of stealing goods and chattels from a close in Uxbridge, for which, by the conspiracy of his enemies, he was convicted at the suit of the king. The king has pardoned Thomas at the supplication of the queen, his mother, both for the felony and the execution of judgement, and this has been ratified and confirmed by the dukes of Bedford and Gloucester. She requests that the king and the lords endorse the bill, and it be delivered to the privy seal for the making of a writ to the chancellor that he make a charter of pardon.

Nature of endorsement

The king, by the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal, and also at the special request of the commons in his parliament held at Leicester, the 18 day of February 4 Hen. VI, moved out of pity to grant to Thomas Cornyssh a charter of pardon both for the felony as for the execution of judgement of which the petition makes mention.

Places mentioned

Uxbridge, [Middlesex].

People mentioned

Thomas Cornyssh (Cornish) of Uxbridge of Middlesex, husband of the petitioner

Nicholas Herford, labourer

Alice Scolecroft

John Martyn (Martin)

[Catherine of Valois], Queen of England

[John of Lancaster], Duke of Bedford

[Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester.

[NO RELATED TEXT] SC 8/101/5035

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429 , (Public Record Office, 1901), p.341 (letters of pardon for Cornyssh, Margaret Cornyssh being mistakenly identified as Alice)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.302b-303a (transcription of petition on parliament roll)