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Thomas Staunton, crossbowman in the Tower of London and Usher of the King's Chamber....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/141/7014A

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Reference
SC 8/141/7014A
Date
[1455]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Staunton, crossbowman in the Tower of London and Usher of the King's Chamber.
Name(s)
Staunton, Thomas
Addressees
King.
Occupation
crossbowman in the Tower of London and Usher of the King's Chamber
Nature of request
Thomas Staunton, Usher of the King's Chamber, states that the King granted to him and to the late Robert Waleys the office of crossbowman in the Tower of London for term of life, receiving 12d daily for this from the issues of Leicestershire. The 12d was resumed in an act of resumption in the King's twenty-eighth year [1449], but granted again in his thirty-first year [1452]. In consideration of this, he asks the King to provide for him according to the terms of the schedule attached to this petition.
Nature of endorsement
[Endorsement on dorse of SC 8/141/7014B]The lords spiritual and temporal have agreed this provision with the fees and wages of 12d daily, if this 12d. was customary for the said office on the first day of the King's reign or before.
Places mentioned
London
Leicestershire
Westminster.
People mentioned
Robert Waleys, crossbowman in the Tower of London.
Note
The proviso granted to the petitioner is enrolled on the roll of the parliament of 1455 (Rot. Parl. vol. V, p.312b).Petitions Relating to Wales p.237 misnumbers this petition and its schedule (as 7012 and 7013) and seems to completely misunderstand them.
Related material

For the schedule mentioned in this petition, see SC 8/141/7014B

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.237 (calendar of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.312b (enrolment of proviso on roll of parliament)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209149/

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