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Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York. Plantagenet, Duke of York Richard King The duke...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/26/1260
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/26/1260
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1432]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York.
- Name(s)
- Plantagenet, Duke of York, Richard
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- The duke states that he is heir to Edward late duke of York and to Edmund, earl of March. He has encountered considerable problems in proving his age and obtaining his estates because of many inquisitions were not sufficiently taken or returned, so that he is still not able to sue and have livery of his lands and tenements without the king's special grace. He requests that as his lands are so wasted because they have been in the king's hands for so long, and also for his long service to the king that he ordain that the Chancellor of England be authorised to make livery to the duke of his estates, having full force of a lawful livery sued out of Chancery by course of the common law; and also that any farmers of the lands be discharged and the grants made to them by letters patent cancelled, and those with assignments beyond what was due sue for other assignments elsewhere; saving to those not holding by royal letters patents their rights, the duke and his heirs not being precluded from claiming that the lands and tenements descended to them in fee tail.
- Nature of endorsement
- No endorsement.
- Places mentioned
- England
- Wales, Ireland
- Calais, [France]
- People mentioned
- Edward [of York], Duke of York
- Richard [of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge], brother of Edward of York, Duke of York, and father of the petitioner
- Edmund [Mortimer], Earl of March
- Anne [Plantagenet], sister of Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, mother of the petitioner
- Philippa [of York], wife of Edward of York, Duke of York.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- 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).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a later petition of the duke concerning the livery of the Mortimer inheritance see SC 8/26/1289
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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 8949
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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), pp.207-8 (licence to the chancellor to make livery to the duke)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.397a-398a (transcription of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061435/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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