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Richard Tunstall, knight Tunstall Richard King Richard Tunstall, who was convicted...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1441

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Reference
SC 8/29/1441
Date
[1473]
Description
Petitioners
Richard Tunstall, knight
Name(s)
Tunstall, Richard
Addressees
King
Nature of request
Richard Tunstall, who was convicted and attainted of high treason in the parliament held in the first year of Edward IV, asks that the act attainting him might be considered null and void by authority of parliament, and that he 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
[On face] The commons have assented to this bill.[On dorse] Let it be done as is desired.
Places mentioned
Westminster
Ireland
Wales
Calais, [France]
People mentioned
[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.47b-48a). It is stated on p.47b 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 2339
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.47b-48a (transcription of petition on parliament roll: text unmodified)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061629/

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