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John Asteley (Astley), knight. Asteley (Astley) John King. John Asteley states that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/89/4405
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/89/4405
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1455]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Asteley (Astley), knight.
- Name(s)
- Asteley (Astley), John
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- John Asteley states that in the twentieth year of his reign the King granted him an annual income of 100 marks to sustain the order of knighthood to which he had raised him. This was resumed in an act of resumption in the King's twenty-ninth year, and replaced by an annual grant of £11 made in the King's thirtieth year. He asks that this grant might be exempted from the current act of resumption, in the terms set out in his petition.
- Nature of endorsement
- The King, with the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal in the parliament chamber at Westminster, in consideration of the fact that John Asteley's mother was his nurse, and that John performed certain feats of arms in his presence at Smithfield, for which the King knighted him and gave him 100 marks for term of life, and that 40 marks of this was taken from him at the last act of resumption, and because he has no other means of supporting himself or his estate of knight, wills that he be provided for as is desired by this bill.
- Places mentioned
- Normandy, [France]
- France
- Guyenne, [France]
- Southampton, [Hampshire]
- Westminster
- Smithfield, [London].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The proviso included with the petition was enrolled with the act of resumption in the parliament of 1455 (Rot. Parl. vol.V, p.318b).
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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 147
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.318b (exception of petitioner from act of resumption, as laid out in the petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148948/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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