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? No Petitioner named Commons in parliament 1) The petitioners state that many creditors...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/28/1389

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Reference
SC 8/28/1389
Date
[1455]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Addressees
Commons in parliament
Nature of request
1) The petitioners state that many creditors of the late duke of Gloucester are impoverished and some imprisoned because of non-payment of sums owed to them because no one for fear of the loss of their own goods will take up the administration. They request that the king will ordain that the archbishop of Canterbury and his fellow commissioners will take up the administration of the duke's goods to perform his will and settle his debts. If these will not suffice they are to have the authority to take various lands of the duke's into their hands.2) It is to be unlawful for anyone to bring actions against the archbishop and his commissioners.
Nature of endorsement
The king wishes to be advised.
Places mentioned
Baynards Castle, London
Holywell, [Lincolnshire]
Stretton, Rutland
Wratting, Suffolk
Polsted Hall, [Norfolk]
Burnham, Norfolk
People mentioned
Humphrey [of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester
[Thomas Bourgchier], Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas [Kempe], Bishop of London
Henry, Viscount Bourgchier
Thomas Liseux, Dean of St Pauls
Gilbert Holtoft, Baron of the Exchequer
John Wardale, Doctor of Law
Hugh Sugar, Doctor of Law
Richard Bedford, Auditor of the King's Exchequer
James Fenys, Lord Saye
Thomas Stanley, knight
John Somerset
Richard Chester.
Note
Dated to 1455 by the heading in Rot. Parl. vol. V, p.337 where this petition is noted as being of 33 Hen. VI.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3877
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.339a-b (no.19) (full transcription of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061574/

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