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Humphrey Dacre, knight Dacre Humphrey King Humphrey Dacre, who was convicted and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1440

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Reference
SC 8/29/1440
Date
[1473]
Description
Petitioners
Humphrey Dacre, knight
Name(s)
Dacre, Humphrey
Addressees
King
Nature of request
Humphrey Dacre, who was convicted and of high treason in the parliament held in the first year of Edward IV, but who was later pardoned, and whose brother Randolph was also convicted and of high treason at the same time, asks that the acts attainting them might be considered null and void by authority of parliament, and that he and his heirs, and Randolph's 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 no person should be chargeable for any issues taken from these possessions, or any entry or trespass in them, between 4 March, 1 Edward IV and 4 April, 13 Edward IV. Various provisos concerning the king's letters patent to Richard Fenys and Joan his wife, and other matters, follow.
Nature of endorsement
The commons have assented to this bill (on face).Let it be done as is desired (on dorse).
Places mentioned
Westminster
Ireland
Wales
Calais [France]
Holbeach, Lincolnshire
Fishwick, Lancashire
Eccleston, Lancashire
Bourght (Bury), Lancashire
Irthington, [Cumberland]
Lazonby, [Cumberland]
Kirkoswald, [Cumberland]
Burgh by Sands, [Cumberland]
Barton, Westmorland
Thurstormot (Cross Dormant), Westmorland
Halton, [Lancashire]
Dacre, Cumberland
People mentioned
Thomas [Dacre], Lord Dacre, father of petitioner
Randolph [Dacre], Lord Dacre, brother of petitioner
Philippa [Dacre], wife of Thomas Dacre, Lord Dacre
William Dacre, knight, father of Thomas Dacre, Lord Dacre
Thomas [Dacre], son of Thomas Dacre, Lord Dacre
Ralph [de Neville], Earl of Westmorland, father of Philippa Dacre
Richard Fenys, Lord Dacre, knight
Joan [Fenys], wife of Richard Fenys
William Dacre
Joan [Dacre], wife of William Dacre
Thomas Bowyt of Bury
William [Bowyt], son of Thomas Bowyt
Hugh [Dacre]
Randolph [Dacre]
William Merschall (Marshall), clerk
John Schaffer
Robert Lowtheane (Lothian)
John Dacre, knight
Thomas [Dacre], son of John Dacre
[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.43a-45a). It is stated on p.43a that this petition was presented on 8 February, 12 Edward IV (1473).
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Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2920
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.43a-45a (transcription of petition on parliament roll: text unmodified)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061628/

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