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John Harpeden (Harpenden), esquire. Harpeden (Harpenden) John King. Harpeden requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/230/11499

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Reference
SC 8/230/11499
Date
[1405]
Description
Petitioners
John Harpeden (Harpenden), esquire.
Name(s)
Harpeden (Harpenden), John
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Harpeden requests that he be granted all the lands and tenements, rents and services, meadows and pastures, and reversions, advowsons with all their appurtenances which were Pyryngton's but which are forfeit by his going to the Welsh rebels without licence.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Shropshire
Wales.
People mentioned
Thomas Pyryngton.
Note
Rees dates this petition to 1405 on the basis of a reference not apparently directly connected to the petition. The dating would seem to be correct as petitions that have come from Chancery Files 498 seem to date to the period 1403-1405.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Chancery Files 498.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.381 (calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335058/

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