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? No Petitioner named Draft copy of a clause to be added to an Act of Resumption,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/124/6184B

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Draft copy of a clause to be added to an Act of Resumption,... dating from [1455] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/124/6184B
Date
[1455]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Draft copy of a clause to be added to an Act of Resumption, granting exemption from the act to John and Rose Merston in relation to a tenement called 'The Leden Porche' in London, which they may retain for the term of their lives.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Crooked Lane, London
St Martin Orgar Lane (Martin's Lane), London.
People mentioned
John Merston
Rose [Merston], wife of John Merston.
Note
This exemption clause is contained in the 1455 Act of Resumption.
Related material

For the petition to which this document relates see SC 8/124/6184A

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5396
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. VI, 1452-1461, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.109 (original grant of this tenement to John and Rose)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.319a (resultant clause in the 1455 Act of Resumption)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208355/

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