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? No Petitioner named Draft clause exempting Joan Martyn from the Act of Resumption....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/124/6188B

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Draft clause exempting Joan Martyn from the 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 8/124/6188B
Date
[1455]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Draft clause exempting Joan Martyn from the Act of Resumption. The original draft text provides a full exemption, but an additional second sentence reduces the grant from 14d per week to 1d per day.
Nature of endorsement
Memorandum that it is agreed that the within written Joan have but 1d a day.
Places mentioned
Canterbury, [Kent].
People mentioned
Joan [Martyn] of Canterbury
Thomas Martyn of Canterbury, husband of the petitioner.
Related material

For the petition to which this exemption clause and response relate see SC 8/124/6188A

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5402;Transferred from C 49/63 on 19 May 1924.
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.313b (resultant clause in the 1455 Act of Resumption)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208360/

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