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John Fortescue, knight Fortescue John King John Fortescue, who was convicted and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1447
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/29/1447
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1473]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Fortescue, knight
- Name(s)
- Fortescue, John
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- John Fortescue, 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. He asks this in consideration of the fact that he has delivered in writing to the king all that was written in Scotland and elsewhere against his title, that he knows of, and has disproved all these arguments.
- 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]
- Scotland
- People mentioned
- [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, p.69a-b). According to p.69a, this petition was presented on 6 October, 13 Edward IV (1473).
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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 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 document from the same session of parliament formerly attached to this is C 49/37/8
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 Everard Dygby is SC 8/29/1429
A similar petition for Henry Roos is SC 8/29/1431
A petition from the same session of parliament formerly attached to this is SC 8/29/1448
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 3494
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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), p.69a-b (transcription of petition on parliament roll: text unmodified)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061636/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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