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John Tiptoft, lord of Tiptoft and Powys. Tiptoft, lord of Tiptoft and Powys John...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/144/7165

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Reference
SC 8/144/7165
Date
[1431]
Description
Petitioners
John Tiptoft, lord of Tiptoft and Powys.
Name(s)
Tiptoft, lord of Tiptoft and Powys, John
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
John, lord of Tiptoft and Powys, states that the late King negotiated with him to have after his death certain lordships, manors, lands, tenements, rents and services formerly belonging to May Gourney, in exchange for a sum of money, and for discharging his manors of Over Wallop and Orton Waterville of certain annual sums. However the manor of Orton Waterville has not been discharged, nor has John been compensated for this. He therefore asks that he might receive 10 marks annually from the Prior and convent of Huntingdon in compensation, from the time when the manor should have been discharged.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] Let it be sent to the lords.[On dorse] It is to be done as is desired by the petition.
Places mentioned
Powys lordship, [Wales]
Over Wallop, Hampshire
Sheen, [Surrey]
Orton Waterville, Huntingdonshire
Huntingdon, [Huntingdonshire]
Hereford by Huntingdon (Hartford), [Huntingdonshire].
People mentioned
[Henry V], King of England
May Gourney
Margaret Cheyne
Charterhouse (Carthusians) of Sheen
Prior and convent of Huntingdon.
Note
This petition is enrolled on the roll of the parliament of 1431 (Rot. Parl. vol. IV p.373a-b).
Related material

For transcript, see no.8 of PRO 31/7/118

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.373a-b (enrolment of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209346/

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