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John de Signorellis of Ferrara, master in medicine. de Signorellis John Assemblage...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/27/1301

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Reference
SC 8/27/1301
Date
[1433]
Description
Petitioners
John de Signorellis of Ferrara, master in medicine.
Name(s)
de Signorellis, John
Addressees
Assemblage of parliament
Occupation
master in medicine
Nature of request
Signorellis states that he has been in the service of the duke of Gloucester and requests that he be made the king's liege man and a denizen of the realm in the form and manner of the attached schedule.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be as it is petitioned for a reasonable fine.
Places mentioned
Ferrara, [Italy]
People mentioned
[Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester.
Note
The petition is dated by the title in Rot. Parl. IV, p.458 to 11 Henry VI, making this 1432-3. The petition can be more closely dated by the issuing of the letters of denization on 8 July 1433 (CPR 1429-36, p.294).
Related material

For the draft letters of denization formerly attached to this petition see SC 8/26/1300

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7453
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.294 (letters of denization to Signorellis)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.473a (no.19) (edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061477/

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