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Thomas Parr, knight of the shire for Cumberland Parr Thomas [None specified] knight...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/27/1347

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This record is about the Thomas Parr, knight of the shire for Cumberland Parr Thomas [None specified] knight... dating from [1446-1449] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/27/1347
Date
[1446-1449]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Parr, knight of the shire for Cumberland
Name(s)
Parr, Thomas
Addressees
[None specified]
Occupation
knight of the shire for Cumberland
Nature of request
Parr requests relief concerning an assault made upon him while going about the business of parliament in 1446.
Nature of endorsement
None
Places mentioned
London
Cornwall
Westminster
People mentioned
Robert Belyngeham (Bellingham)
Thomas Belyngham (Bellingham)
Robert Dykenson (Dickinson)
Thomas Stryklond (Strickland)
John Selyngier
Note
A petition from Thomas Parr on this matter was made in 1446; it seems likely that this is a transcript made for its incorporation into the counter-petition of 1449 found in SC 8/27/1348 and printed in Rot Parl., vol. V, pp. 168-70.
Related material

For the counter-petition into which this was incorporated, see SC 8/27/1348

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6833
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.168b-169b (transcription of petition within a counter-petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061528/

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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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