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? No Petitioner named Proviso exempting from the current act of resumption the grant...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/141/7011B

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Proviso exempting from the current act of resumption the grant... dating from [1455] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/141/7011B
Date
[1455]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Proviso exempting from the current act of resumption the grant of 40 marks annually made to John Skelton, esquire, in compensation for an earlier grant made to him by Henry V, and in consideration of the ransom he paid when captured by the French.
Nature of endorsement
[Endorsement to SC 8/141/7011A] Because of the considerations contained in this bill, and also because of the great age of John Skelton, it is agreed by the lords spiritual and temporal that it is to be done as is desired.
People mentioned
John Skelton, esquire
[Henry V], King of England.
Note
Exemption enrolled on the roll of the parliament of 1455 (Rot. Parl. vol. V pp.318b-319a).
Related material

For the petition to which this schedule was attached, see SC 8/141/7011A

For another petition from the same petitioner, requesting exemption from another act of resumption, see SC 8/86/4261

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
C 49/63
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.318 (enrolment of exemption on roll of parliament)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209146/

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