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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Accounts officers of the king's household Commons in parliament The officers request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/26/1261
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This record is about the Accounts officers of the king's household Commons in parliament The officers request... dating from [1432] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/26/1261
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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
- Accounts officers of the king's household
- Addressees
- Commons in parliament
- Nature of request
- The officers request that they be pardoned all of the arrears of their accounts of their offices which have accrued since the start of the reign as such officers have had in the past, the officers of Henry V receiving a general pardon for their arrears, since no officer is able to serve without similar pardons.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be just as it is petitioned.
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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 the schedule of the names of the officers formerly appended to this petition see SC 8/26/1262
For a duplicate of the petition see SC 8/26/1263
For a duplicate of the schedule see SC 8/26/1264
For an earlier petition by other officers referred to in this petition see SC 8/25/1223
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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 6300
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.397a (transcription of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061436/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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