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Ralph Passinham, King's harbourer. Passinham Ralph King. King's harbourer Passinham...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/332/15710
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This record is about the Ralph Passinham, King's harbourer. Passinham Ralph King. King's harbourer Passinham... dating from [1416] 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 8/332/15710
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1416]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Ralph Passinham, King's harbourer.
- Name(s)
- Passinham, Ralph
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- King's harbourer
- Nature of request
- Passinham requests that the King grant him new letters patent pardoning him for the escape of Wiseman, Pauly, Hanse, Webbe and Shepherd from the gaol of Cambridge castle in 1416, while the petitioner was absent and John and Alice Smith were guarding the gaol. The King previously pardoned him for the escape of five felons but the letters patent did not name the escapees and contained an error concerning the day of the escape.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire]
- Bury (Bury St Edmunds), Suffolk
- Ickleton, Cambridgeshire
- Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire
- Willingham, Cambridgeshire
- Over, Cambridgeshire
- Stortford (Bishop's Stortford), Hertfordshire.
- People mentioned
- Matthew Wiseman, labourer, son of Nicholas Wiseman, of Bury, approver
- Nicholas Wiseman
- Henry Pauly of Ickleton, webster, felon
- John Hanse of Bassingbourn, webster, felon
- Thomas Webbe of Willingham, webster, approver
- William Shephirde (Shepherd), butcher of Stortford, chapman, felon
- John Smyth (Smith)
- Alice [Smith], wife of John Smith.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1416 when Passinham was pardoned for these escapes (CPR 1416-22, p. 43 and p. 68).
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen V, vol. II, 1416-1422, (Public Record Office, 1911), pp.43-4 (vacated pardon to petitioner) & p.68 (pardon to petitioner) & p.378 (pardon to petitioner in another escape case)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736294/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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