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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Hamo Bealknap (Belknap), son and heir of Robert Bealknap, knight. Bealknap (Belknap)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/25/1206
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This record is about the Hamo Bealknap (Belknap), son and heir of Robert Bealknap, knight. Bealknap (Belknap)... dating from [1426] 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 8/25/1206
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1426]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Hamo Bealknap (Belknap), son and heir of Robert Bealknap, knight.
- Name(s)
- Bealknap (Belknap), Hamo
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Bealknap states that his father, Holt and de Burgh in parliament at Westminster, 9 Richard II forfeited their estates and were imprisoned and exiled because it was alleged that they assented to certain questions, which they did not and were loyal lieges of the king. Holt and de Burgh recovered their lands and tenements at parliament held in 2 Hen. IV by descent of their ancestors not withstanding the judgement and statute made to the contrary. However although it was granted to Bealknap by Henry V at the parliament held in his ninth year that he could demand by descent of his ancestors, the lands forfeited by his father were excluded from this. Bealknap states that his father's forfeiture was no different from that of Holt and de Burgh, and they were restored, except that at that time his father died, and he was of an age that he was unable to pursue to have remedy. Upon this it was advised by parliament that he should be restored, and he requests that the council treat and make fine with those to whom Richard II granted the lands to and their heirs and assigns, and the lands be restored to him and his heirs by discretion of the council.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Robert Bealknap (Belknap), knight, father of the petitioner
- John Holt
- William de Burgh
- Richard II, King of England
- Henry IV, King of England
- Henry V, King of England
- [Thomas Beaufort], Duke of Exeter.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by the heading in Rot. Parl. IV, p.309 where it is noted that the petition comes from 4 Hen. VI, so making this a petition of 1 Sept. 1425-31 Aug. 1426. As it seems that this is a parliamentary petition it must therefore come from the Leicester parliament of February 1426.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter, see SC 8/23/1136
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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 983
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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), p.309a-b (no.1)(full transcription of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061377/
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