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John Popham, knight, late treasurer of the king's household. Popham John King treasurer...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/28/1364A

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Reference
SC 8/28/1364A
Date
[1455]
Description
Petitioners
John Popham, knight, late treasurer of the king's household.
Name(s)
Popham, John
Addressees
King
Occupation
treasurer of the king's household
Nature of request
1) Popham states that he received from Henry V after the battle of Agincourt for his service an annuity of 100 marks for his life to be taken at the Exchequer, which was surrendered in return for a grant from Henry VI of 100 marks to be taken from Builth. He requests that the grant of the annuity be provided for in the act of resumption to be had in the present parliament in accordance with the draft clause.2) Clause for inclusion in the act of resumption, that the act is not prejudicial to Popham's grant.
Nature of endorsement
The king by the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal agrees that Popham should have 40 marks parcel of the 100 marks by virtue of the letters patent. If he does not agree to this, then the 100 marks is to be resumed, and Popham is to resort to his former grant according to the desire in the petition of resumption.
Places mentioned
Builth, [Breconshire, Wales]
Builth cantref, [Breconshire, Wales]
Herefordshire
France.
People mentioned
Henry V, King of England
Henry VI, King of England
John Merbury
Roger (Mortymer) Mortimer, Earl of March.
Note
Dated by the heading in Rot. Parl. vol. V, p.278 making this from the parliament at Westminster in 33 Hen. VI (1455).
Related material

For a copy of the grant of Henry VI to Popham see SC 8/28/1364B

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6745
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), p.312a (variation of the draft proviso in the act of resumption in accordance with the endorsement to the petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061546/

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