John Banham, esquire, late Master cook Banham John King Master cook 1) Banham requests...

Petitioners

John Banham, esquire, late Master cook

Name(s)

Banham, John

Addressees

King

Occupation

Master cook

Nature of request

1) Banham requests that two grants made to him, one of a sum to be received from the subsidy and alnage from the sale of clothes in Northamptonshire and Rutland, and the other to be received from the abbot of Evesham for the sum he pays to the Exchequer for view of Frankpledge and other rents of assize in his manors in Gloucestershire be provided for in the act of resumption in the manner and form of the draft, as he has nothing to live on as he has gone blind.2) Clause for inclusion in the act of resumption, that the act is not prejudicial to the grants by letters patent made to Banham.

Nature of endorsement

Memorandum that it is agreed by the lords spiritual and temporal that Banham have the 100s. as is contained in the petition, and that the £3 12s. 7d. and the 3s. over the 100s. be resumed.

Places mentioned

Northamptonshire

Rutland

Evesham, [Worcestershire]

Gloucestershire

People mentioned

Henry VI, King of England

Abbot of Evesham

For a related petition see SC 8/187/9302

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. V, 1446-1452, (Public Record Office, 1910), p.510 (grant of the sum from the subsidy and alnage)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.313b (variation of the draft proviso in the act of resumption in accordance with the endorsement to the petition)