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William Elton, esquire. Elton William King. William Elton requests that the act of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1403
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/29/1403
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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
- William Elton, esquire.
- Name(s)
- Elton, William
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- William Elton requests that the act of resumption made in the present parliament might not be prejudicial to him, with regard to grants from the king of 6 d. a day to be taken from the issues and profits of Norfolk and Suffolk, and of £12 annually from the fee farm of the town of Malmesbury.
- Nature of endorsement
- Be it remembered that in consideration that the king of his grace has made William Elton a gentleman, and that he, at the desire and command of the king put his life in great danger in going to Harfleur when it was last besieged by the king's enemies, and that he brought letters to the king out of the same town, the lords have agreed that the same William shall be provided with the £12 as contained in this bill: and as for the 6d. a day, it is to be resumed into the king's hand.
- Places mentioned
- Norfolk
- Suffolk
- Malmesbury, [Wiltshire]
- Harfleur, [Normandy, France].
- People mentioned
- Abbot and convent of Malmesbury.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The act of resumption to which the petitioner requests an exception is enrolled on the roll of the parliament held at Westminster in July 1455 (33 Henry VI) (Rot. Parl. vol. V, p.318b). The grant made to Alice, Duchess of Suffolk, edited in Rot. Parl. vol. V, p.394a-b was made during a parliament, and appears to be from that of March 1453 (31 Henry VI), as it stipulates that part of the grant will take effect from Easter of that year.CPR 1452-61 p.71 is dated at Westminster, 17 May 1453, and states that the grant is in lieu of the reversion of this sum previously granted to him (CPR 1446-52 p.77, dated at Westminster, 10 July 1447), annulled in an act of resumption in the parliament of November 29 Henry VI (1450).CPR 1446-52 p.557 and CPR 1446-52 p.548 are both dated at Westminster, 16 March 1452. They give different reasons why the previous grant is now invalid however: p.557 saying that it is because the William Elton is now an esquire, not a yeoman, and p.548 citing an act of resumption.CPR 1436-41 p.442 is dated at Windsor Castle, 8 August 1440.
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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 3165
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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)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. III, 1436-1441, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.442 (previous grant to petitioner of the same sum)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. V, 1446-1452, (Public Record Office, 1910), p.77 (grant to petitioner of reversion of £12 annually from the fee farm of Malmesbury) & p.557 (grant for life to petition of 6 d. a day from the issues of Norfolk and Suffolk in lieu of a previous grant which was invalidated) & p.548 (another vacated copy of this grant)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. VI, 1452-1461, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.71 (grant to petitioner of £12 annually for life, from the fee farm of Malmesbury, in lieu of the reversion of this sum previously granted to him, which has been annulled in an act of resumption)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.318b (partial transcription of petition on roll of parliament, among exceptions to an act of resumption) & p.394b (mention of the petitioner's grant from Norfolk and Suffolk in another grant)
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Record URL
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