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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Derwent. Derwent Thomas King. The petitioner requests confirmation of his...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/107/5322
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This record is about the Thomas Derwent. Derwent Thomas King. The petitioner requests confirmation of his... dating from [1467] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/107/5322
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1467]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Derwent.
- Name(s)
- Derwent, Thomas
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner requests confirmation of his office of king's serjeant and fee of 12d. a day, recounting his long service to the king's family and followers in the wars; he was imprisoned and nearly killed by Dacre because he had a pedigree that showed the validity of the Yorkist claim to the throne.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Granted, notwithstanding the act of resumption.
- Places mentioned
- Blore Heath, [Staffordshire]
- Ludlow, [Shropshire]
- Wakefield, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Skipton, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Carlisle, [Cumberland].
- People mentioned
- Richard [of York], Duke of York
- Richard [Nevill], Earl of Salisbury
- Humphrey Dacre
- sheriff of Cumberland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to 1467 when Derwent was exempted from the parliamentary act of resumption: PROME, parliament of 1467, item 8 (at n. 72).
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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 2787
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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)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of 1467, item 8 (at n. 72) (exemption of Derwent from the act of resumption)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149892/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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