SEAL COVER. Acknowledgement by the Abbot of St Martin-aux-Jumeaux, Amiens, France, of receipt from the Cistercian brethren ‘de Valloires’ [perhaps Valloires, a Cistercian abbey in the diocese of Amiens] of payment of a debt; dated circa 1250 [numbers apparently missing after the date]. Cut up later for a seal cover. Latin. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley.
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St Martin-aux-Jumeaux, Abbey of, in Amiens: Acknowledgement of payment of debt: circa 1250: Lat.
AGREEMENT between William Wodmeston’ and Sir Richard Chaumpernon’ concerning land in Wodmeston’ claimed by William; 16 October 7 Henry IV [1405]. French. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley. Seal.
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William Wodmeston, fl. early 15th cent: Sir Richard Chaumpernon, fl. early 15th cent: Agreement between Sir Richard Chaumpernon and William Wodmeston: 1405: Fr.: Seal.
Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley. Annotated in the hand of Thomas Martin of Palgrave, the East Anglian antiquary, as follows:- 76912 A. ‘The Tovne Seale of Bakton’. 76912 B. ‘Sigillum Comune Burgi de Eye’.
FORGED CHARTERS. Thirty-five charters forged at Paris by Eugène-Henri Courtois and Paul Letellier, comprising thirty documents purporting to relate to loans issued during the siege of Acre in 1191 (including two in the name of Philip Augustus and one in the name of Richard the Lionheart), two dated from Jaffa in 1191, one dated from Tyre in 1192, one dated from Paris in 1219, and one dated from Damietta in 1249; circa 1839-1842. The charters were sold to families who wished to establish thei...
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Eugène-Henri Courtois, forger: Paul Letellier, forger: Forged charters rel. to the siege of Acre by Eugène-Henri Courtois and Paul Letellier: circa 1839-1842: Lat.
WRIT of quo warranto from Arthur, Prince of Wales, to Sir William Troutbeck, concerning the tenure of the manor of Little Budworth, co. Chest., the office of keeper of Delamere forest, and many rights and customs relating to the manor and forest; 12 Aug. 1499. Latin. Little Budworth, Cheshire: ...
WILL of William Joynes, butler to Lord Egmont, at Stagenhoe, co. Hertf.; 9 Jan. 1813, with probate, 3 July 1813. William Joynes, butler to Lord Egmont: Will: 1813: Copy.
POST-NUPTIAL SETTLEMENT between Captain (afterwards Sir) Richard Francis Burton and Isabel Burton; 7 April 1865. Marriage: Post-nuptial marriage settlement of Capt. (afterw. Sir) R. F. Burton and I. Burton: 1865. Sir Richard Francis Burton, explorer and scholar: Isabel Burton, wife of Sir R F ...