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John Holt, squire, and Margaret Holt his wife. Holt; Holt John; Margaret King, and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/85/4228

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Reference
SC 8/85/4228
Date
[1450-1459]
Description
Petitioners
John Holt, squire, and Margaret Holt his wife.
Name(s)
Holt; Holt, John; Margaret
Addressees
King, and lords and commons of parliament.
Nature of request
John Holt, squire, and Margaret his wife rehearse their right to certain lands and tenements in Aston, Vauxhall and Bordesley in Warwickshire, of which John was seised until the king granted them to him and Margaret by his letters patent, in the nineteenth year of his reign. These lands and tenements were specifically exempted from the act of resumption made in the last parliament at Westminster. John and Margaret now ask that it might be granted by authority of parliament that they might hold them as they did before this grant was made.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] The commons have assented to this bill.[On dorse] The King wills it.
Places mentioned
Aston, Warwickshire
Birmingham, [Warwickshire]
Dodeston (Vauxhall), Warwickshire
Bordesley, Warwickshire
Sherneford (Sharnford), [Leicestershire]
Westminster.
People mentioned
Margery Holt
Richard, parson of the church of Sharnford
William Smyth (Smith), priest
Walter Holt
John [of Gaunt], Duke of Lancaster
Henry IV, King of England
William Holt, squire, son of Margery Holt
John [Holt], son of Walter Holt
Aymer Holt, squire, son of John Holt.
Note
The petitioners were exempted from acts of resumption in 1449, 1450 and 1455 (Rot. Parl. vol. V, pp. 195a. 224a, 315) This petition therefore seems to belong to the parliaments of 1450, 1453 or 1459.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4289
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. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp. 195a, 224a, 315 (exemptions of the petitioners from acts of resumption)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148770/

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