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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Porthaleyn and Alice Porthaleyn his wife. Porthaleyn; Porthaleyn Thomas; Alice...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/86/4252
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/86/4252
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1445-1446]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Porthaleyn and Alice Porthaleyn his wife.
- Name(s)
- Porthaleyn; Porthaleyn, Thomas; Alice
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly damaged and incomplete.]Thomas Porthaleyn and Alice his wife, formerly the wife of Richard Shipley, state that on the Monday before the Nativity of Our Lady in the King's twenty-fourth year, when Alice was returning from a pilgrimage to the chapel of Our Lady of Muswell, she was attacked and robbed at Highgate by William Gargrave and other malefactors, who abducted her and forced her to marry William; and on the same Monday they assaulted her sister, Helen Hertwell, and stole a horse belonging to Alice. And these malefactors have no fear of the King's laws, although this was done in time of parliament, within three miles of London. They request a writ of Chancery to make proclamation at Westminster that William Gargrave and the others are to appear before King's Bench on the day of return of the writ, to answer for this felony and trespass.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Let it be delivered to the lords.[On dorse] The King wills it.
- Places mentioned
- Muswell, Middlesex
- London
- Southwark, Surrey
- Highgate, [Middlesex]
- Westminster
- Fleet prison, [London].
- People mentioned
- Richard Shipley
- [John Stafford], Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England
- William Gargrave, late of London
- Richard Neuton (Newton), late of London, wiredrawer
- Robert Mysterton
- John Edmondes (Edmonds), late of London, mercer
- Thomas Gaynesford, late of Southwark, founder
- John Marshall
- late of Southwark, boatman
- William Scragges, late of Southwark, yeoman
- Oliver Nelot, late of Southwark, yeoman
- Thomas Unwyn (Unwin), late of Southwark, yeoman
- Henry Gargrave, late of Southwark, gentleman
- William Power, late of Southwark, yeoman
- Helen (Ellen) Hertwell.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to 1445-1446, with reference to actions in the September of the King's twenty-fourth year (1445), and to the prorogation of the present parliament on the feast of St Boniface (5 June 1445): see Rot. Parl. vol. V, p.67).
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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 6834
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148794/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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