John Skelton, esquire. Skelton John Lords in parliament. John Skelton, esquire, requests...

Petitioners

John Skelton, esquire.

Name(s)

Skelton, John

Addressees

Lords in parliament.

Nature of request

John Skelton, esquire, requests exemption for two grants, one of £20 from the hands of the Prior of Coventry, and one of 40 marks from the hands of the Sheriff of Cumberland, from the current act of resumption.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] Per dominum de Cromwell.With regard to the grant of £20, the lords are agreed that it should not come under the resumption, but with regard to the grant of 40 marks, several of the lords think that it should be respited until the end of the answering of the provisions, in case it is taken as a precedent, and that it should then be answered by the king.

Places mentioned

France

Normandy, [France]

Coventry, [Warwickshire]

Paris, [France]

Cumberland

Scotland.

People mentioned

Henry [V], King of England

[John Kempe], Cardinal and Archbishop of York, formerly Chancellor of Normandy

the Prior of Coventry

Humphrey [of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester

John [of Lancaster], Duke of Bedford

John Skelton, knight, father of petitioner

Henry IV, King of England

[Ralph de Cromwell], Lord Cromwell.

For another petition from the same petitioner, requesting an exemption from another act of resumption, see SC 8/141/7011A

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. IV, 1441-1446, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.324 (grant for life to petitioner of £20 from the hands of the Prior of Coventry, in recompense for a previous grant now invalid)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. V, 1446-1452, (Public Record Office, 1910), pp.518-9 (grant for life to petitioner of 40 marks from the issues of Cumberland, in recompense for previous grants now invalid or annulled)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.199a (exemption from the act of resumption for the £20 granted to the petitioner, and for 10 marks of the 40 marks)