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Edward Ellesmer (Ellesmere), esquire Ellesmer (Ellesmere) Edward King Edward Ellesmer,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/30/1454

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Reference
SC 8/30/1454
Date
[1475]
Description
Petitioners
Edward Ellesmer (Ellesmere), esquire
Name(s)
Ellesmer (Ellesmere), Edward
Addressees
King
Nature of request
Edward Ellesmer, 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 offices or letters patent granted 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 and to the attached schedule.[On dorse] Let it be done as is desired.
Places mentioned
London
Westminster
Ireland
Wales
Calais, [France]
People mentioned
[Edward IV], King of England
Note
This petition and its attached schedule, now no longer attached, 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.130a-131a).Rot. Parl. vol. VI, p.130a states that it was presented on 23 January, 14 Edward IV (1475).
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Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3169
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.130a-131a (transcription of petition and attached schedule on parliament roll: text unmodified)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061644/

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