Catalogue description Petitioners: Margaret Cornish, the wife of Thomas Cornish of Uxbridge. Name(s): ...

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Details of SC 8/101/5035
Reference: SC 8/101/5035
Description:
Petitioners: Margaret Cornish, the wife of Thomas Cornish of Uxbridge.
Name(s): Cornish, Margaret
Addressees: Council.
Nature of request: The petitioner seeks the king's charter of pardon for her husband and also a writ of delivery to the keeper of the king's bench. She shows that by the malice of his enemies her husband was indicted before justices of king's bench, condemned by twelve men of felony and judgement passed upon him. Then the King, Queen, Duke of Gloucester, Archbishop of Canterbury, and other knights and esquires granted Thomas Cornish at Lambeth, life and limb, and free deliverance.
Nature of endorsement: [On face] By the duke of Norfolk, 16 March.
Places mentioned: Uxbridge, [Middlesex]; Lambeth, [Surrey].
People mentioned: Thomas Cornish of Uxbridge, tailor; Henry VI, King of England; Catherine de Valois, Queen of England; [Humphrey Plantagenet], Duke of Gloucester; [Henry Chichele], Archbishop of Canterbury; John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.
Note: Notes on guard date this petition to 1426, which is compatible with internal evidence.
Date: [1426]
Related material:

For a related petition see SC 8/25/1202
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 1925
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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