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Gervase le Vulre, notary and secretary of the King's Chancery of France Vulre Gervase...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1414

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Reference
SC 8/29/1414
Date
[1461]
Description
Petitioners
Gervase le Vulre, notary and secretary of the King's Chancery of France
Name(s)
Vulre, Gervase
Addressees
King
Occupation
notary and secretary of the King's Chancery of France
Nature of request
Gervase le Vulre asks that, for his forty years' good service in the French chancery, the annuity granted him from the great and little customs in the port of Southampton, might be exempted from the current act of resumption, in the form appended to the petition.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
France
Southampton, [Hampshire]
Note
The exception desired by this petition is enrolled on the roll of the parliament held at Westminster in November 1461 (I Edward IV) (Rot. Parl. vol. V, p.473a-b).CPR 1461-7 p.79 is dated at Westminster, 15 October 1461.
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/28/1382

For a similar, later, exception of the petitioner to an act of resumption, see piece 17 of C 49/60

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8213
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw IV, 1461-1467, (Public Record Office, 1897), p.79 (grant to petitioner of 50 marks annually from the great and little customs in the port of Southampton)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.473a-b (enrolment on parliament roll of the exemption in the form specified in the petition) & p.530b (enrolment of C 49/60 no.17)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061600/

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