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Prior and convent of the Charterhouse outside London Commons in parliament The prior...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/26/1256

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This record is about the Prior and convent of the Charterhouse outside London Commons in parliament The prior... dating from [1432] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/26/1256
Date
[1432]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and convent of the Charterhouse outside London
Addressees
Commons in parliament
Nature of request
The prior and convent state that because of their great necessity for water, the king granted to John Feriby and Margaret his wife a licence by his letters patent on 2 December 1430 that they could give them some land in Islington with a spring in it, under which land they could construct a lead pipe, the statute of mortmain notwithstanding. The Feribys were to have the herbage of the land, and receive an annual rent of 12d. from the prior and convent. The land was held by John Feriby in right of his wife, and was entailed by the ancestors of Margaret on the heirs begotten from their bodies. The prior and convent request that they consider their great necessity for water, and that John and Margaret still have the herbage and rent, despite the land being assessed by an inquisition ad quod dampnum at only 3d., and grant that the prior and convent can hold the land in this form forever, notwithstanding the alienation and entail, and that John and Margaret should have and enjoy all the profit and rent from the land.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be just as it is petitioned.
Places mentioned
London
Iseldon (Islington), [Middlesex]
People mentioned
John Feriby, esquire
Margaret [Feriby], wife of John Feriby.
Note
Dated by the heading in Rot. Parl. IV, p.388 which makes this a petition in the parliament held at Westminster on 12 May 10 Henry VI (1432).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2347
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. II, 1429-1436, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.105 (licence for John and Margaret Feriby to make the grant)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.394b-395a (transcription of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061430/

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