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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk; Elizabeth de la Pole, Duchess of Suffolk, wife...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/338/E1201
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This record is about the John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk; Elizabeth de la Pole, Duchess of Suffolk, wife... dating from 1480 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 8/338/E1201
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1480
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk; Elizabeth de la Pole, Duchess of Suffolk, wife of John de la Pole.
- Name(s)
- Pole, Duke of Suffolk; Pole, Duchess of Suffolk, John; Elizabeth
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The de la Poles request that the king send a privy seal with his sergeant of arms to arrest Doughty and bring him before the council at a day assigned by the king so that Doughti might be punished according to the king's laws. Doughty with armed men at Kingston came to murder Myndrem, his servant and tenant, and then took him and made him strike down a gate of the petitioners and entered upon their land and executed common felons there and made a highway that previously had not existed to their great damage.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let letters be sent of 13 May in the 20th year to come before the king and council in the morrow of St John the Baptist under pain of £100.
- Places mentioned
- Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- Richard Doghty (Doughti), sheriff of Kingston upon Hull
- Henry Myndrem, servant and tenant of the petitioners.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1480 as it refers to events on 10 March 1480, and the response refers to the morrow of the feast of St John the Baptist in the same year. Additionally, Doughti was sheriff from Michaelmas 1479 to Michaelmas 1480 (List of Sheriffs, p.189).
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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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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/C9683329/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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