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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Nicholas Upton, executor of Thomas, late Earl of Salisbury; Richard Alred, executor...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/325/E710
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This record is about the Nicholas Upton, executor of Thomas, late Earl of Salisbury; Richard Alred, executor... dating from [c. 1429] 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 8/325/E710
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1429]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Nicholas Upton, executor of Thomas, late Earl of Salisbury; Richard Alred, executor of Thomas, late Earl of Salisbury; Andrew Sperlyng, executor of Thomas, late Earl of Salisbury; John Husee, executor of Thomas, late Earl of Salisbury; Hugh Short, executor of Thomas, late Earl of Salisbury.
- Name(s)
- Upton; Alred; Sperlyng; Husee; Short, Nicholas; Richard; Andrew; John; Hugh
- Addressees
- Commons of the present parliament.
- Nature of request
- [The petition is in poor condition with many portions being only partly illegible, and some parts being entirely illegible].The executors request that they be released from all the debts that they owe to king and to the executors of the king's father as they were granted this by a grant and ordinance by have been disturbed by a demand that they account in the Exchequer.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king wishes that the executors of the earl named in the petition be chargeable to the king for all things due to him by the earl after [...] and ordinance made in the last parliament in the manner as it is contained [in their] petition and the schedule annexed to it.
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- France.
- People mentioned
- Thomas [Montagu], Earl of Salisbury
- Humphrey [of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1429 as the earl of Salisbury died in 1428, and it seems likely that the parliament referred to is that held at Westminster in September 1429, and if it was not that it was presumably the parliament held at Westminster in January 1431.
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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)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682704/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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