Humphrey Stafford, son and heir of Edmund de Stafford, Earl of Stafford. Stafford...

Petitioners

Humphrey Stafford, son and heir of Edmund de Stafford, Earl of Stafford.

Name(s)

Stafford, Humphrey

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Humphrey, son and heir of Edmund, Earl of Stafford, states that Henry V, on 30 August last, granted orally to the petitioner that he should have delivery of all his father's lands, tenements and possessions, which were in the King's hands, even though he was under age. He asks that he might have delivery of these lands, with the issues from 30 August, even though he is still under age.

Nature of endorsement

The answer to this petition, delivered into the parliament held on the Monday before the feast of St Martin, in the first year of the reign of King Henry, sixth since the Conquest, appears on the schedule sewn to the same petition.

Places mentioned

Wales

Ireland.

People mentioned

Edmund [de Stafford], Earl of Stafford

Henry [IV], King of England

Henry [V], King of England

Hugh de Stafford, knight

Nicholas Bradshawe.

For the schedule formerly attached to this petition, granting this petition, see C 49/15/1

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.238 (calendar of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.195a-b (no. 7) (full edition of original petition)