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Sergeants and other officers of the Household of the king. Commons in parliament....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/25/1223

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This record is about the Sergeants and other officers of the Household of the king. Commons in parliament.... dating from [1427] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/25/1223
Date
[1427]
Description
Petitioners
Sergeants and other officers of the Household of the king.
Addressees
Commons in parliament.
Nature of request
The sergeants and other officers of the king's household who were lately officers of Henry V's household state that the late king as he lay ill in France declared that it was his will that the petitioners were to be pardoned and released by his letters patent of all manner of debts, impeachments, demands, accounts, arrears of accounts and prests which he has against them, but he died before this could be performed.
Nature of endorsement
Let several charters of pardon be made under the great seal of the king for the persons contained in the schedule appended to the petition both for those who are living, and the heirs and executors of those who are dead in the form of another schedule attached to the petition.
People mentioned
[Thomas Beaufort], Duke of Exeter
[John Wakeryng], Bishop of Norwich
[Walter Hungerford], Lord Hungerford
Bourghchier (Bouchier), Lord Bouchier
William Porter, Knight
John Rodenhale, Treasurer of the king's household
William Beauchamp, knight, Treasurer of the Household
William Phelip (Philip), knight, Steward of the Household.
Note
Dated to 1427 by the heading in Rot. Parl. IV, p.309 where it is noted that the petition comes from the parliament held at Westminster in the quindene of St. Michael, 6 Hen. VI (October 1427). This is confirmed by draft letters patent for 6 Hen. VI (C 49/17/10).
Related material

A schedule of names of the petitioners is SC 8/26/1263

A duplicate of the petition is SC 8/26/1262

For a later petition for a pardon by other officers is SC 8/26/1261

For draft letters patent of special pardon for named individuals see C 49/17/10

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4402
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.324b-325a (transcription of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061396/

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