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Edward of Lancaster, Prince of Wales Lancaster, Prince of Wales Edward The prince...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/28/1395
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This record is about the Edward of Lancaster, Prince of Wales Lancaster, Prince of Wales Edward The prince... dating from [1459] 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 8/28/1395
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1459]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Edward of Lancaster, Prince of Wales
- Name(s)
- Lancaster, Prince of Wales, Edward
- Nature of request
- The prince states that the duchy of Cornwall was granted to him with certain provisions, restraints and exceptions as appear in the act of livery made in parliament. These provisions greatly dismember and diminish the duchy to the disinheritance of the prince. The prince requests that the king ordain that he might enjoy the duchy in the same estate and inheritance that Edward of Woodstock, son of Edward III, and that Henry V later enjoyed them as dukes of Cornwall.Reciting:1) Letters patent of Edward III granting the duchy of Cornwall to his eldest son Edward of Woodstock, 17 March 1337;2) Letters patent of Edward III granting further rights and confirmations to Edward of Woodstock, 18 March 1337;3) Letters patent of Edward III granting further rights and confirmations to Edward of Woodstock, 3 January 1338.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be as it is desired, saving to the king certain things in the manner and form following.
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- Cornwall
- Launceston, Cornwall
- Devon
- Trematon, Cornwall
- Saltash, Cornwall
- Tintagel, Cornwall
- Restormel, Cornwall
- Clymmeslond (Stoke Climsland), Cornwall
- Kerribullok (Kelly Bullock) Park, Cornwall
- Tybesta, Cornwall
- Poudershire (Powder hundred), Cornwall
- Tewynton (Tewington), Cornwall
- Helston, Cornwall
- Kerrier hundred, Cornwall
- Moresk (St Clement), Cornwall
- Penknight, Cornwall
- Penlyn (Pelynt), Cornwall
- Rellaton (Rillaton), Cornwall
- Estwynelshire (East Hundred), Cornwall
- Helston, Cornwall
- Trygshire (Trigg hundred), Cornwall
- Hellesbury (Helsbury) Park, Cornwall
- Liskeard, Cornwall
- Calstock, Cornwall
- Talskydy (Talskiddy), Cornwall
- Lostwithiel, Cornwall
- Toubrigg (Trowbridge), Wiltshire
- Aldbourne, Wiltshire
- Amesbury, Wiltshire
- Winterbourne [unidentified], Wiltshire
- Canford, Dorset
- Henstridge, Somerset
- Charlton (Charlton Horethorne), Somerset
- River Dertmouth (River Dart), Devon
- River Sutton, Devon
- Wallingford, Oxfordshire
- Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
- Berkhamsted honour
- Buckinghamshire
- Northamptonshire
- Byfleet, Surrey
- Knaresborough, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Isleworth, Middlesex
- Lydford, Devon
- Bradninch, Devon
- People mentioned
- Edward III, King of England
- Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Earl of Chester
- John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey
- Joan [de Warenne], wife of John de Warenne
- [William Montague], Earl of Salisbury
- John de Meere
- Hugh d`Audley, Earl of Gloucester
- Margaret [d'Audley], wife of Hugh d'Audley
- Laurence [Booth], Bishop of Durham.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by the heading in Rot. Parl. vol. V, p.345 that makes this a petition in the Coventry parliament of 38 Hen. VI. This must date to 1459, as there was only one parliament in that regnal year.
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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 8530
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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)
- French
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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)
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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.40 (brief summary of petition, erroneously dated)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.356b-362b (full edition of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061581/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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