John Holand, Earl of Huntingdon. Holand, Earl of Huntingdon John Commons in parliament....

Petitioners

John Holand, Earl of Huntingdon.

Name(s)

Holand, Earl of Huntingdon, John

Addressees

Commons in parliament.

Nature of request

The earl was granted a licence by a writ of the privy seal by the king to give to the bishop of Bath and Wells, the earl of Stafford and others various lands, manors and lordships in Devon, Berkshire, Cheshire, North Wales and Somerset granting them back entailed on the earl and his wife Anne and the heirs of their bodies with remainders to the heirs of John, late earl of Huntingdon, the petitioner's father, and Elizabeth his wife, and in default of issue to the king. The earl requests that he be granted letters patent of licence under the great seal made according to the tenor and effect of the writ without making a fine in Chancery, considering that the earl was in the wardship of Henry V, and was taken prisoner in the late king's wars, being held for 5 years, and was ransomed for 20,000 marks to the great impoverishment of the earl, and he is still in the wars of the king in France at his great cost.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Barnstaple, Devon

Fremington, Devon

Combe Martin, Devon

Dartington, Devon

South Molton, Devon

Wynkletracy (Winkleigh), Devon

Blakeburne Boty (Blackborough), Devon

Northlew, Devon

Holdesworthy (Holsworthy), Devon

Langacre, Devon

Fremington hundred, Devon

South Molton hundred, Devon

Artyngton (Ardington), Berkshire

Northwich, Cheshire

Overmerssh (King's Marsh), Cheshire

Hope, [Flintshire, Wales]

Hopedale, [Flintshire, Wales]

Northgales (North Wales)

Blagdon, Somerset

Ludford (West Lydford), Somerset.

People mentioned

John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and Wells

Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford

John Grey, knight, son of Reginald Grey, Lord of Ruthin

John Russell

John Golafre

Anne [Holand], wife of the petitioner

John [Holand], Earl of Huntingdon, father of the petitioner

Elizabeth [Holand], wife of John Holand, the petitioner's father

Henry V, King of England.

For an earlier petition relating to these lands, see SC 8/129/6431

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. II, 1429-1436, (Public Record Office, 1907), pp.114-15 (licence in response to the petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.384b-385a (no.2) (transcription of original petition)