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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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SC 8/28/1376
Date
[1455]
Description
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
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6740
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.314b (proviso for Peycok in the act of resumption)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061560/

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