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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset. Beaufort, Earl of Somerset John King and lords in...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/74/3699
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This record is about the John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset. Beaufort, Earl of Somerset John King and lords in... dating from [1404] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/74/3699
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1404]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset.
- Name(s)
- Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, John
- Addressees
- King and lords in parliament.
- Nature of request
- Beaufort requests that for the safe keeping of the town and castle of Calais, which was entrusted to him, that full payment of the arrears of wages be made to the soldiers, or discharge the earl of the keeping of the same town and castle so that no blame can be attached to him if any mischief should occur. He further requests that if remedy is made that it is ordained to him sufficient assignment according to the purport of the indentures made for his office of captain.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king, with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal wish that whatsoever sums the treasurer first receives, he should pay the earl for the arrears as the petition makes mention, and that in future the earl be paid in peace and war according to the form and effect of the indentures made between the king and the earl as appears more fully in the petition.
- Places mentioned
- Calais, [France].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 5 Hen. IV in Rot. Parl. (Vol. III, p.534).
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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 7387
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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)
- French
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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. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.534b-535a (full transcription of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107473/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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