? No Petitioner named Marston) Draft letters of Henry VI to the chancellor stating...

Petitioners

? No Petitioner named

Nature of request

Marston) Draft letters of Henry VI to the chancellor stating that Robert Burton has shown him that he was selected to represent the English Church at the council of Basle, and at that time he and his servants in his company were protected. Henry commands the chancellor to suspend from 2 February 1434 until the octave of the purification of Our Lady 1435 the pleas of scire facias which have been procured by certain malefactors, enemies of Robert Burton against him and his sureties to keep the peace, and to stop further writs issuing out of Chancery against them. Also to send writs of supersedias to suspend indictments against Burton and his servants who have been sent to the council at Basle.

Nature of endorsement

No endorsement.

Places mentioned

Basle, [Switzerland]

Stebenhith (Stepney), [Middlesex]

London

People mentioned

Henry VI, King of England

[John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and Wells] and Chancellor

Robert Burton, clerk, precentor of the cathedral church of Our Lady, Lincoln and late parson of the parish church of Stepney

[Henry Chichele], Archbishop of Canterbury

John Broun of Stepney, gentleman

Robert Howeden of Stepney, husbandman

John atte Walle of Stepney, husbandman

Thomas Langewell of Stepney, husbandman

Thomas Kirkeby (Kirkby) of Lincoln, gentleman, servant of Robert Burton

John Toralde of Lincoln, gentleman, servant of Robert Burton

John Beaumarys (Beaumaris) of Lincoln, chaplain, servant of Robert Burton

Thomas Sclatter (Slater) of Lincoln, yeoman, servant of Robert Burton

John Marston of the stable of Lincoln, palfreyman and servant of Robert Burton (also called John Ethe)

John Ethe, of the stable of Lincoln, palfreyman and servant of Robert Burton (also called John

For the petition to which these draft letters were formerly appended see SC 8/26/1298