Catalogue description Petitioners: Margaret Cornyssh (Cornish), wife of Thomas Cornish of Uxbridge in...

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Details of SC 8/25/1202
Reference: SC 8/25/1202
Description:
Petitioners: Margaret Cornyssh (Cornish), wife of Thomas Cornish of Uxbridge in Middlesex.
Name(s): Cornyssh (Cornish), Margaret
Addressees: King and the lords spiritual and temporal in parliament.
Nature of request: The petitioner states that her husband was maliciously indicted with Herford of stealing goods and chattels from a close in Uxbridge, for which, by the conspiracy of his enemies, he was convicted at the suit of the king. The king has pardoned Thomas at the supplication of the queen, his mother, both for the felony and the execution of judgement, and this has been ratified and confirmed by the dukes of Bedford and Gloucester. She requests that the king and the lords endorse the bill, and it be delivered to the privy seal for the making of a writ to the chancellor that he make a charter of pardon.
Nature of endorsement: The king, by the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal, and also at the special request of the commons in his parliament held at Leicester, the 18 day of February 4 Hen. VI, moved out of pity to grant to Thomas Cornyssh a charter of pardon both for the felony as for the execution of judgement of which the petition makes mention.
Places mentioned: Uxbridge, [Middlesex].
People mentioned: Thomas Cornyssh (Cornish) of Uxbridge of Middlesex, husband of the petitioner; Nicholas Herford, labourer; Alice Scolecroft; John Martyn (Martin); [Catherine of Valois], Queen of England; [John of Lancaster], Duke of Bedford; [Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester.
Note: Dated by the heading in Rot. Parl. IV, p.295 where it is noted that the petition comes from the parliament held at Leicester on 8 February 1426 (4 Hen. VI). The date is confirmed by the issue of a pardon on 18 February (CPR 1422-9, p.341).
Date: [1426]
Related material:

[NO RELATED TEXT] SC 8/101/5035
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 1916
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429 , (Public Record Office, 1901), p.341 (letters of pardon for Cornyssh, Margaret Cornyssh being mistakenly identified as Alice)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.302b-303a (transcription of petition on parliament roll)

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