Catalogue description Petitioners: John Witters, also known as John Haukyn, taverner of Lincoln. ...

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Details of SC 8/148/7351
Reference: SC 8/148/7351
Description:
Petitioners: John Witters, also known as John Haukyn, taverner of Lincoln.
Name(s): Witters; Haukyn, John; John
Addressees: King and council.
Places mentioned: Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
Nature of request: John Witters, also known as John Haukyn, taverner of Lincoln states that he has lived in England for twenty-four years and more, and intends to spend the rest of his life there, and asks the commons to ask the King and lords that he and his heirs might become denizens, by authority of parliament.
Nature of endorsement: [On face] Let it be sent to the lords.[None on dorse].
Note: Dated on the guard to '? c. 1432', but also dated tentatively to 1422. There do seem to be a spate of these petitions in the early years of Henry VI: SC 8/85/4224, SC 8/85/4227, SC 8/85/4230 and SC 8/85/4242 are other examples. Whatever its date, this petition seems to be contemporary with SC 8/86/4269, and presented ten years before SC 8/150/7492: perhaps the best estimate would be to date this petition to c. 1422-c. 1430 and SC 8/150/7492 to c. 1432-c. 1440.
Date: [c. 1422-c. 1430]
Related material:

For a related petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/150/7492

For a duplicate of this petition with endorsement, see SC 8/86/4269
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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