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William Bokelond (Buckland), esquire; Robert Cappes, esquire; Thomas Wilde (Wild),...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/92/4573

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This record is about the William Bokelond (Buckland), esquire; Robert Cappes, esquire; Thomas Wilde (Wild),... dating from [c. 1450] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/92/4573
Date
[c. 1450]
Description
Petitioners
William Bokelond (Buckland), esquire; Robert Cappes, esquire; Thomas Wilde (Wild), esquire.
Name(s)
Bokelond (Buckland); Cappes; Wilde (Wild), William; Robert; Thomas
Addressees
Commons of the present parliament.
Nature of request
Bokelow and the other petitioners request that the commons request that the king with the assent of the lords will grant that a certain indictment and all processes whereby they were indicted of high treason be void as they were wrongly indicted by a commission held in 25 Henry VI, and that all other grants, sureties, releases and acquittances that they made in this matter also be void.
Nature of endorsement
[On face].Let this bill be sent to the lords.[On dorse].The king wishes to be advised on this.
Places mentioned
Deptford, Kent.
People mentioned
Humphrey [of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester
William de la Pole, Marquis of Suffolk
John Norreys, squire of the body of [king].
Related material

For a related petition by two of the three petitioners see SC 8/96/4763

For the inquisition formerly attached to this petition see SC 8/92/4574

For transcript, see p.30 of PRO 31/7/154

For a related petition by other servants see SC 8/85/4240

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 566
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. V, 1446-1452, (Public Record Office, 1910), p.104 (individual pardons to each of the petitioners)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149121/

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