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Not specified King. [This petition is badly damaged and large parts are missing or...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/188/9382

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This record is about the Not specified King. [This petition is badly damaged and large parts are missing or... dating from [1444-c. 1450] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/188/9382
Date
[1444-c. 1450]
Description
Petitioners
Not specified
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
[This petition is badly damaged and large parts are missing or illegible.]The petitioner requests the passing of an act of resumption in the current parliament for all grants made between 3 October 1444 and the arrival of the Earl of Shrewsbury, the king's lieutenant of Ireland or his deputy. It is stated that the revenues of Ireland are insufficient for its defence due to the large numbers of such grants made to ministers and others.
Nature of endorsement
[on face] The commons have assented to this bill.[on dorse] [Fragmentary and partially illegible note, seemingly passing the bill with exemption for the Duke of York.]
Places mentioned
Ireland.
People mentioned
John [Talbot], Earl of Shrewsbury
Richard [of York], Duke of York.
Note
Dated on the guard, and by Connolly, to the period?1445-8. The Earl of Shrewsbury was appointed as lieutenant in 1445, actually arriving there in the autumn of 1446, and was replaced in 1447, but the surviving text does not seem to indicate where the petition fits into this chronology, and it may date to before or after Shrewsbury's arrival. An act of resumption was passed at the Drogheda parliament of April 1450, and it is also possible that the petition may relate to that act (by when the Duke of York was lieutenant). Connolly's calendar entry mis-quotes the first date for the requested period of the resumption, which is evidently 1444 (23 Henry VI, rather than 20).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.62 (brief calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295260/

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