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Walter Devereux, knight. Devereux Walter Commons in Parliament. The petitioner requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/105/5239

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This record is about the Walter Devereux, knight. Devereux Walter Commons in Parliament. The petitioner requests... dating from [1455] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/105/5239
Date
[1455]
Description
Petitioners
Walter Devereux, knight.
Name(s)
Devereux, Walter
Addressees
Commons in Parliament.
Nature of request
The petitioner requests annulment of the indictment made against him at Hereford in the thirtieth year of the king's reign, on the basis of the pardon already granted to him in the thirty-first year of the reign.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be done as requested.
Places mentioned
Hereford, [Herefordshire]
Wales.
People mentioned
Edmund [Beaufort], Duke of Somerset
James Audeley
William Yelverton.
Note
Firmly datable by reference to Rot. Parl., vol. V, p. 342.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2663
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.342a (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149809/

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