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? No Petitioner named Copy of a letter from William, Lord Herbert, stating that,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1435A

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Copy of a letter from William, Lord Herbert, stating that,... dating from 1461 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/29/1435A
Date
1461
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Copy of a letter from William, Lord Herbert, stating that, by the authority granted to him by King Edward IV, to receive into his grace and pardon, such persons in Wales as should seem to him appropriate, upon an oath of future allegiance to the king, he has received John Skydmore, knight, in this way, taking from him such an oath.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
York
Wales
Pembroke, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
People mentioned
William [Herbert], Lord Herbert
John Skydmore (Scudamore), knight
Note
This letter is dated at Pembroke, 30 September, 1 Edward IV (1461).
Related material

The petition in support of which this letter is produced is SC 8/29/1435B

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7691
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. VI, Edw IV, Ric III and Hen VII, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.29a-30b (transcription of letter and related petition on parliament roll: text unmodified)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061622/

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