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

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Details of SC 8/150/7492
Reference: SC 8/150/7492
Description:
Petitioners: John Witters, also known as John Haukyn, taverner of Lincoln.
Name(s): Witters; Haukyn, John; John
Addressees: Commons of parliament.
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 thirty-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.
Nature of endorsement: [On face] Let it be sent to the lords. [None on dorse].
Note: One of a number of these petitions in the early years of Henry VI: SC 8/85/4227, SC 8/85/4230 and SC 8/85/4242 are other examples. Unless there has been a mis-copying, this petition was presented ten years after SC 8/86/4269 and SC 8/148/7351, from the same petitioner. The best estimate seems to be to date this petition to c. 1432-c. 1440 and the others to c. 1422-c. 1430.
Date: [c. 1432-c. 1440]
Related material:

For a related petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/148/7351

For a related petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/86/4269

For transcript, see no.30 of PRO 31/7/118
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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