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Ottewell Worsley, esquire. Worsley Ottewell King. [This petition is damaged]Ottewell...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/150/7495
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This record is about the Ottewell Worsley, esquire. Worsley Ottewell King. [This petition is damaged]Ottewell... dating from [1427-1440] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/150/7495
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1427-1440]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Ottewell Worsley, esquire.
- Name(s)
- Worsley, Ottewell
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- [This petition is damaged]Ottewell Worsley, esquire, states that the manors of Stockport, Poynton, Bredbury, Beycom, Henbury, Romiley, Woodley, Woodford, and Etchells, in Cheshire, which are of his inheritance, are withheld and occupied by people of great might, so that he has no power to recover them. He asks the King, with the assent of the lords and commons of parliament, to have letters of the privy seal sent to these people, to come before Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Justice of Cheshire, with the Chief Justices of both benches, to answer concerning the petitioner's claim; and that the Duke of Gloucester might have sufficient power to determine the matter.
- Nature of endorsement
- The King, with the advice and assent of the lords spiritual and temporal in the present parliament, wills and grants that at the suit of Ottewell Worsley, named in this petition, letters of the privy seal should be sent to the people against whom Ottewell complains in the petition, to appear before the lords of the King's council at such time as they shall be duly warned by the same, to answer all matters contained in the petition, and all other things concerning the same, and to show the title, right and claim which they pretend to have to the manors, lands and tenements specified in the petition; and also to have Ottewell come before the council at the same time. And if they find by this examination any matter of pity or conscience in this, then the lords of the council shall inform the King at the next parliament of all such matters as they have found before then by such examination, so that in the same next parliament such provision might be made for Ottewell as the case of pity and conscience requires.
- Places mentioned
- Stopforde (Stockport), Cheshire
- Poynton, Cheshire
- Bredbury, Cheshire
- Beycom (Beacom), Cheshire
- Henbury, Cheshire
- Romiley, Cheshire
- Woodley, Cheshire
- Woodford, Cheshire
- Etchells, Cheshire.
- People mentioned
- Humphrey [of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester, Justice of Cheshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1427-1440 with reference to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester as Chief Justice of Chester. The petitioner is mentioned in CPR 1436-41 pp.183 (15 January 1438), 374 (10 May 1440), and 394 (21 February 1440).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209680/
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