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Details of SC 8/29/1409
Reference: SC 8/29/1409
Description:
Petitioners: William Oldhall, knight
Name(s): Oldhall, William
Addressees: Commons of parliament
Nature of request: William Oldhall, knight, states that, through the machinations of ill-disposed persons, who aimed to acquire his lands and goods, he was declared a traitor by an act of the last parliament, commenced at Reading on 6 March, in the thirty-first year of the king's reign, the tenor of which is attached to this petition, and accused of having counselled John Cade, John Wylkyns and John Halton; and he was indicted, by means of threats and duress, and outlawed, but has now been acquitted, and the outlawry reversed. He asks the commons to ask the king to grant, by authority of parliament, that the act made in the last parliament be quashed and annulled, and that he might be restored to his good name, and he and his heirs enabled to inherit and to plead, and that he might be restored to all the possessions he had on the first day of that parliament, without any other suit for them, and to all the goods and chattels he has lost, and that he might be enabled to sue for these. Various provisos are included.
Nature of endorsement: Let it be sent to the Lords (on face).It is to be done as is desired (on dorse).
Places mentioned: France; Normandy, [France]; Guyenne, [France]; Reading, [Berkshire]
People mentioned: John Cade; John Wylkyns (Wilkins); John Halton
Note: If the previous parliament was the one held at Reading in March, 31 Henry VI (1453), this parliament must be the one held at Westminster in July, 33 Henry VI (1455). This is explicitly stated by CPR 1452-61 p.282, and by Rot. Parl. vol. V, pp.451a-453a, which are dated at Westminster, 21 November 1455.
Date: [1455]
Related material:

The copy of the act of parliament attainting William Oldhall, formerly attached to this petition, is piece 11 of C 49/29
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 6346
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. VI, 1452-1461, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.282 (exemplification of petition and response, at the petitioner's request)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.451a-453a (no.40) (edition of exemplification of petition, and of related Act of Parliament, on Patent Roll)

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