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Richard Midelton, late of Greenwich, squire, Thomas Herbard late of Greenwich, squire,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/85/4240
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This record is about the Richard Midelton, late of Greenwich, squire, Thomas Herbard late of Greenwich, squire,... dating from [1449] 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 8/85/4240
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1449]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Richard Midelton, late of Greenwich, squire, Thomas Herbard late of Greenwich, squire, and Richard Nedeham late of London, yeoman, alias Richard Nedeham late of Greenwich, yeoman, formerly servants of Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester.
- Name(s)
- Midelton; Herbard; Nedeham, Richard; Thomas; Richard
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Occupation
- servants of Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester
- Nature of request
- The petitioners state that on the Saturday after the Translation of St Thomas the martyr, in the King's twenty-fifth year [July 1447], they and other former servants of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, were accused of treason against the King, and conspiring to make the Duke of Gloucester king in his place, and that, put to answer on this at Westminster, they claimed that they were innocent, and put themselves on the country. Richard Midelton, and, after an adjournment, Thomas Herbard and Richard Nedeham, were subsequently found guilty, and sentenced to death. They still claim their innocence and ask the commons to ask the King, with the advice and assent of the lords, to annul and cancel the record and process against them, by authority of parliament, and to restore them to the estate they enjoyed before this took place.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Let it be delivered to the lords.[On dorse] The King, with the advice and assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and of the commons in the present parliament, and by authority of the same, grants that the record and process against Richard Midelton, Thomas Herbard and Richard Nedeham are to be cancelled and annulled and they are to be restored to their previous estate and good name.
- Places mentioned
- Greenwich, Kent
- London
- Deptford, [Kent]
- Bury St Edmunds, [Suffolk]
- Westminster
- Tower of London
- Marshalsea prison [Southwark, Surrey]
- Southwark, [Surrey]
- Tyburn, [Middlesex]
- York
- Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire]
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
- Bristol
- Pembroke, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
- Abergavenny, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
- Shrewsbury, [Shropshire]
- Hereford, [Herefordshire]
- Coventry, [Warwickshire]
- Lichfield, [Staffordshire]
- Chester, [Cheshire]
- Lancaster, [Lancashire].
- People mentioned
- William [de la Pole], Marquis of Suffolk
- Humphrey [of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester
- Eleanor [of Lancaster], Duchess of Gloucester
- Thomas Charles, Lieutenant of the Constable of the Tower of London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1446-52 p.74 is dated 14 July 1447, p.110 is dated 26 October 1447 and p.112 is dated 11 October 1447. However, the petition was clearly presented to parliament, and the first parliament after the indictment was that of 1449: the petition must therefore date from 1449, and the pardons be backdated.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition, see SC 8/92/4573
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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 5963
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. V, 1446-1452, (Public Record Office, 1910), pp.74 (pardon to Thomas Herbard) & 110 (pardon to Richard Midelton) & 112 (pardon to Richard Nedeham)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148782/
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