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? No Petitioner named Draft copy of an exemption clause in favour of John and Margaret...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/117/5837B

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Draft copy of an exemption clause in favour of John and Margaret... dating from [1455] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/117/5837B
Date
[1455]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Draft copy of an exemption clause in favour of John and Margaret Holt, to be added to the Act of Resumption passed by the 1455 Parliament.
Nature of endorsement
The lords spiritual and temporal agree this provision as it is desired.
Places mentioned
Aston, Warwickshire
Birmingham, Warwickshire
Duddeston (Vauxhall), Warwickshire
Bordesley, Warwickshire
Reading, [Berkshire].
People mentioned
John Holt, esquire
Margaret (Margery) Holt, wife of John Holt.
Note
Contains the text included in the 1455 Act of Resumption, and refers explicitly to the previous Parliament, held at Reading and Westminster in 1453.
Related material

For the petition to which this schedule was once attached see SC 8/117/5837A

For a related petition see SC 8/85/4228

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4407
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.315a (full edition of exemption clause in the Act of Resumption)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150516/

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