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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Peycok (Peacock), servant of Queen Margaret Peycok (Peacock) John King servant...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/28/1376
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This record is about the John Peycok (Peacock), servant of Queen Margaret Peycok (Peacock) John King servant... dating from [1455] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/28/1376
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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
- John Peycok (Peacock), servant of Queen Margaret
- Name(s)
- Peycok (Peacock), John
- Addressees
- King
- Occupation
- servant of Queen Margaret
- Nature of request
- 1) Peycok states that his father received a grant of an annuity for the term of his life from Richard II for his service, which he surrendered so that it could be granted to the petitioner for the term of his life. He has no other grant of the king and 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 made to Peycok.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king by the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal agrees the provision as it is desired.
- Places mentioned
- Chester, [Cheshire]
- People mentioned
- Thomas Peycok (Peacock), Yeoman of the Chamber of King Richard II, late father of the petitioner
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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 6740
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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 Peycok in the act of resumption)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061560/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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