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Everard Dygby (Digby), squire Dygby (Digby) Everard King Everard Dygby, who has always...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1429
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This record is about the Everard Dygby (Digby), squire Dygby (Digby) Everard King Everard Dygby, who has always... dating from [1472] 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 8/29/1429
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1472]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Everard Dygby (Digby), squire
- Name(s)
- Dygby (Digby), Everard
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- Everard Dygby, who has always been loyal to Edward IV, to the point of following him into exile, but whose father Everard was convicted of high treason in the parliament of the first year of Edward IV, asks that the act convicting him might be considered null and void by authority of parliament, and that Everard the son and his heirs might have and enjoy all the castles, manors, lordships, lands, tenements, and other possessions, that would have been theirs if the act had never been, and enter and possess them, without making further suit for them - and that all letters patent made by the king concerning these possessions since they came into his hand should now be considered void, but no person should be chargeable for any issues taken from these possessions in that time.
- Nature of endorsement
- The commons have assented to this bill (on face).Let it be done as is desired (on dorse).
- Places mentioned
- Stokdrye (Stoke Dry), Rutland
- Westminster
- Ireland
- Wales
- Calais, [France]
- People mentioned
- Everard Dygby (Digby) of Stoke Dry, squire, father of petitioner
- [Edward IV], King of England
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition is enrolled on the roll of the parliament summoned at Westminster in October 1472 (12 Edward IV) and prorogued a number of times until January 1475 (Rot. Parl. vol. VI, pp.22a-23a).It would seem, from pp.3a and 39a that this petition was delivered during the session which lasted from 3 October to 30 November 1472.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A similar petition for John Scudamoure is SC 8/29/1435B
A similar petition for Margaret Verney, her husband and son, is SC 8/29/1433
A similar petition for Robert Bollyng is SC 8/29/1426
A similar petition for Ralph Nevyll is SC 8/29/1430
A similar petition for John Fortescue is SC 8/29/1447
A similar petition for Edward Ellesmer is SC 8/30/1454
A similar petition for William Grymmesby is SC 8/29/1424
A similar petition for Edmund Cornewayll is SC 8/29/1428
A similar petition for Thomas Ormond is SC 8/29/1432
A similar petition for Richard Tunstall is SC 8/29/1441
A similar petition for William Josep is SC 8/29/1437
A similar petition for Roger Heron is SC 8/23/1138
A similar petition for Robert Myrfyn is SC 8/29/1436
A similar petition for William Stok is SC 8/29/1434
A similar petition for William Hody is SC 8/30/1461
A similar petition for Thomas Maydenwell is SC 8/29/1427
A similar petition for Robert Tailbos is SC 8/29/1425
A similar petition for Henry Roos is SC 8/29/1431
A similar petition for Humphrey Dacre is SC 8/29/1440
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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 2676
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. VI, Edw IV, Ric III and Hen VII, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.22a-23a (transcription of petition on parliament roll: text unmodified)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061616/
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