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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert Broke (Brook) of the Privy Spicery. Broke (Brook) Robert King. 1) Broke states...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/28/1372
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/28/1372
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1455]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert Broke (Brook) of the Privy Spicery.
- Name(s)
- Broke (Brook), Robert
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- 1) Broke states that for his service to the king's father during which he was permanently maimed he was granted the office of approver of the Fens in Lincolnshire in the honour of Bolingbroke as Symond his predecessor held it. As he has nothing else to live on he requests provision be made for him in the act of resumption in the manner and form of the draft.2) Clause for inclusion in the act of resumption, that the act is not prejudicial to the grant of the office made to Broke.
- Nature of endorsement
- The lords spiritual and temporal agree the provision as it is desired.
- Places mentioned
- France
- Normandy, [France]
- Lincolnshire
- Honour of Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire.
- People mentioned
- Henry V, King of England
- Thomas Symond, late Approver of the Fens in the honour of Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by the heading in Rot. Parl. vol. V, p.278 making this from the parliament at Westminster in 33 Hen. VI (1455).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 991
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.314b (proviso for Broke in the act of resumption)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061555/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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