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John Stanley, esquire Stanley John King 1) Stanley states that he received a grant...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/28/1378

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SC 8/28/1378
Date
[1455]
Description
Petitioners
John Stanley, esquire
Name(s)
Stanley, John
Addressees
King
Nature of request
1) Stanley states that he received a grant of the office of sheriff of Anglesey with the wages and fees of the same, and the wages of the garrison of Caernarfon for the long service that he did Henry V in France and in the Household, and to Henry VI. 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 made to Stanley.
Nature of endorsement
The king by the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal agrees the provision for the office of sheriff, and as to the remainder it is provided for by another exception.
Places mentioned
France
Normandy, [France]
Anglesey, [Wales]
North Wales
Caernarfon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]
Note
Dated by the heading in Rot. Parl. vol. V, p.278 making this from the parliament at Westminster in 33 Hen. VI (1455).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7638
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.315b (proviso for Stanley in the act of resumption)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061562/

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