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Robert Lovell, esquire. Lovell Robert King and Lords in Parliament. Lovell requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/121/6016
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/121/6016
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1427]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert Lovell, esquire.
- Name(s)
- Lovell, Robert
- Addressees
- King and Lords in Parliament.
- Nature of request
- Lovell requests that the executors of the will of Henry V make payment of various sums owed to him by the late king. He lists a variety of loans which he had negotiated on the late king's behalf and which he had since repaid himself, for which he now requests restitution. He claims that the accounts of his debts were taken and kept from him by Courtenay until he was forced to alienate his castle at Wardour, and he is now impoverished and asks the executors for payment. He also lists other loans negotiated with other individuals, whose executors are now pursuing him for payment in the courts.
- Nature of endorsement
- [on face] For the Duke of Gloucester 2 December.
- Places mentioned
- Wardour Castle, [Wiltshire]
- Duchy of Lancaster
- People mentioned
- Henry V, King of England
- Richard Whityngton (Whittington)
- Drew Barantyn
- Thomas Ryngewode
- Thomas Philip, mercer
- Richard Garnar
- John Trethewy
- John Bury
- [Hugh Burnell], Lord [B]urnell
- Richard Courtenay, Bishop of Norwich
- John [Lovell], Lord Lovell, brother of the petitioner
- [Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester
- executors of Henry V
- [Henry Chichele], Archbishop of Canterbury
- [Thomas Langley], Bishop of Durham
- [Walter Hungerford], Lord Hungerford
- Hugh Waterton, knight
- [Robert] Thorley, Treasurer of Calais
- John Norbury, esquire
- feoffees of Henry V.
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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 5023
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208182/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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