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Description
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Petitioners:
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Hamo
Bealknap (Belknap), son and heir of Robert Bealknap, knight
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Name(s):
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Bealknap
(Belknap), Hamo
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Addressees:
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King
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Nature of
request:
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Bealknap
states that his father, Holt and de Burgh in parliament at Westminster, 9
Richard II forfeited their estates and were imprisioned and exiled because
it was alleged that they assented to certain questions, which they did not
and were loyal lieges of the king. Holt and de Burgh recovered their lands
and tenements at parliament held in 2 Hen. IV by descent of their ancestors
not withstanding the judgement and statute made to the contrary. However
although it was granted to Bealknap by Henry V at the parliament held in
his ninth year that he could demand by descent of his ancestors, the lands
forfeited by his father were excluded from this. Bealknap states that his
father's forfeiture was no different from that of Holt and de Burgh, and
they were restored, except that at that time his father died, and he was of
an age that he was unable to pursue to have remedy. Upon this it was
advised by parliament that he should be restored, and he requests that the
council treat and make fine with those to whom Richard II granted the lands
to and their heirs and assigns, and the lands be restored to him and his
heirs by discretion of the council.
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Nature of
endorsement:
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[None].
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Places
mentioned:
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Westminster
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People
mentioned:
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Robert
Bealknap (Belknap), knight, father of the petitioner; John Holt; William de
Burgh; Richard II, King of England; Henry IV, King of England; Henry V,
King of England; [Thomas Beaufort], Duke of Exeter.
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Date
derivation:
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Dated by the
heading in Rot. Parl. IV, p.309 where it is noted that the petition comes
from 4 Hen. VI, so making this a petition of 1425-6.
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