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John Upton of ...burgh in Lincolnshire, husbandman, and John Upton. Upton; Upton...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/340/16019

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This record is about the John Upton of ...burgh in Lincolnshire, husbandman, and John Upton. Upton; Upton... dating from [c. 1446] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/340/16019
Date
[c. 1446]
Description
Petitioners
John Upton of ...burgh in Lincolnshire, husbandman, and John Upton.
Name(s)
Upton; Upton, John; John
Addressees
[Missing]
Occupation
husbandman
Nature of request
[This petition is fragmentary] [...]burgh in Lincolnshire, husbandman, and John Upton of . . . 14 July in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of the present king . . . Copiay, one of the king's justices of the peace within the city of Lincoln . . . in person and find sufficient mainprise for the lord king, that is, John . . . draper, Thomas Gwylle of Lincoln, tailor, William Adams of Lincoln, yeoman . . . of Lincoln, tailor, that the aforesaid John Upton and John Upton damage . . . Laurence or any other of the lord king's people with his body . . . will not do or procure to have done in any way, namely each of the aforesaid mainpernors under pain of . . . of aforesaid John Upton and John Upton on pain of £20 which . . . the aforesaid John Upton and John Upton recognise that they owe the lord king . . . of the lord king to be levied . . . the same John Upton and . . . the aforesaid or . . . of them . . . and on this legitimately . . .
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Lincolnshire
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
. . . Copiay, justice of the peace in Lincoln
Thomas Gwylle of Lincoln, tailor
William Adams of Lincoln, yeoman
. . . Laurence.
Note
Dated by the mention of 14 July, 24 Henry VI (1446).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736500/

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