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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William Pope, esquire. Pope William Commons in parliament. Pope requests that he...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/25/1240
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/25/1240
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1431]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William Pope, esquire.
- Name(s)
- Pope, William
- Addressees
- Commons in parliament.
- Nature of request
- Pope requests that he be granted the office of bailiff of Winchelsea for the term of his life with all fees, wages, revenues and other commodities in the same manner as William Catton in recompense for the manor of Staveley which he had of the grant of Henry V, and which is now in the king's hand by virtue of an inquisition taken wrongfully and without rightful title.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be as it is desired.
- Places mentioned
- Winchelsea, [Sussex]
- Staveley, [Derbyshire].
- People mentioned
- William Catton
- William Nevylle (Neville), escheator of Derbyshire
- Henry V, King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to 1431 by the heading in Rot. Parl. IV, p.367 where it is noted that the petition comes from the parliament held at Westminster on Friday next before the feast of St Hillary, 9 Hen. VI (January 1431). This date is confirmed by the grant of the office made on 12 March 1431 (CPR 1429-36, p.113).
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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 6690
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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)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. II, 1429-1436, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.113 (grant of the office in recompense)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.374a (transcription of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061414/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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