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? No Petitioner named [This document is badly damaged.] Letters patent of Henry VI,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/141/7035

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named [This document is badly damaged.] Letters patent of Henry VI,... dating from [1439] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/141/7035
Date
[1439]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
[This document is badly damaged.] Letters patent of Henry VI, making provisions for the execution of his mother's will, in accordance with the request made in SC 8/141/7034.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
People mentioned
[Henry VI], King of England
Catherine [de Valois], Queen of England
Robert Rolleston, clerk, Keeper of the Wardrobe
John Merston
Richard Alrede, esquire
Henry [Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester] and Cardinal of England
Humphrey [of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester
[William Alnwick], Bishop of Lincoln.
Note
CPR 1436-41 pp.389-390 is dated 26 November 1439, and seems to agree with these letters.
Related material

For the petition to which these letters were formerly applied, see SC 8/141/7034

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. III, 1436-1441, (Public Record Office, 1907), pp.389-390 (provisions for the execution of Queen Catherine's will, in accordance with the tenor of these letters)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209172/

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