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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Godfrey, esquire. Godfrey Thomas King. Godfrey requests that the Chancellor...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/113/5647
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This record is about the Thomas Godfrey, esquire. Godfrey Thomas King. Godfrey requests that the Chancellor... dating from [c. 1406] 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 8/113/5647
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1406]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Godfrey, esquire.
- Name(s)
- Godfrey, Thomas
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Godfrey requests that the Chancellor be ordered to direct a commission to Erpingham, Cheyne, Beauchamp and Arnold to arrest Mareys to answer before the council at Easter next for the lands of Stanlake, who was found an idiot, when Godfrey will speak for the profit of the king, and that in the meantime the goods and chattels of Mareys be taken into the king's hand until he has satisfied the king in £1,000 for the king and his son John's profit.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Gloucester Castle, [Gloucestershire].
- People mentioned
- William Wykham (Wykeham), Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor
- Roger Stanlake
- John Mareys
- Thomas Erpyngham (Erpingham), knight of the king's council
- John Cheyne, knight of the king's council
- William Beauchamp, Constable of the castle of Gloucester
- John Arnold, Serjeant-at-Arms
- John [of Lancaster], son of Henry IV.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to c. 1406 if the commission to arrest Godfrey and Mareys is connected with the petition (CPR 1405-8, p.156).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another version of this petition see SC 8/113/5642
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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 3784
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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)
- French
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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)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XIII, 1364-1367, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.202 (commission to investigate idiocy of Roger Stanlake)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. III, 1405-1408, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.156 (commission to arrest the petitioner and Mareys and bring them before the king and council at all speed)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150320/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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