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Robert Myrfyn Myrfyn Robert King Robert Myrfyn, whose father Robert was convicted...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1436

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Reference
SC 8/29/1436
Date
[1472]
Description
Petitioners
Robert Myrfyn
Name(s)
Myrfyn, Robert
Addressees
King
Nature of request
Robert Myrfyn, whose father Robert was convicted and attainted of high treason in the parliament begun in the April of the third year of Edward IV, and continued until the January of the fourth year, asks that the act attainting him might be considered null and void by authority of parliament, and that Robert the son and his heirs might have and enjoy all the manors, 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
Anesworth (Eynsford), Kent
Westminster
Wales
People mentioned
Robert Myrfyn, esquire, father of petitioner
[Edward IV], King of England
Note
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.31b-32a). 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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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 Everard Dygby is SC 8/29/1429

A similar petition for Henry Roos is SC 8/29/1431

A similar petition for Humphrey Dacre is SC 8/29/1440

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5517
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw IV, 1461-1467, (Public Record Office, 1897), p.521 (grant of Mirfyn's lands in Kent and Surrey to Robert Halle)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. VI, Edw IV, Ric III and Hen VII, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.31b-32a (transcription of petition on parliament roll: text unmodified)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061624/

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