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201. Egerton MS 2614

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2614
Title:
The Diary of Margaret Hoby
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Diary of Margaret Hoby (b. 1571, d. 1633), Lady Hoby, an Elizabethan noblewoman from Yorkshire. Hoby was the only child of Arthur Dakins (b. c. 1517, d. 1592), of Linton, and received a Puritan upbringing, in the household of Katherine Hastings (b. c. 1538, d. 1620),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1599-21 Jul 1605
Extent:
1 volume

202. Egerton Roll 2210

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Roll 2210
Title:
Roll of expenses of John Harecourt, receiver in Staffordshire of Anne Neville, duchess of Buckingham
Scope & Content:
A roll of expenses sent to Anne [Neville, d. 1480], duchess of Buckingham, countess of Hereford, Northampton and Stafford, incurred by John Harecourt, esquire, her receiver in Staffordshire, covering several years down to Michaelmas 1447. The expenses relate to travel costs, rent for property he...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1467
Extent:
1 roll

203. Egerton Roll 8797

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Roll 8797
Title:
Inventory of the possessions of Alice Smythe, widow of Thomas Smythe of London
Scope & Content:
Inventory of the possessions of Alice Smythe (née Judde), widow of Thomas Smythe (1522-1591) of London. Seen, valued and appraised on 30 June 1593 by Richard Rogers, goldsmith, Richard Osborne, draper, William Greenway, merchant tailor, and Hugh Sherriot, merchant tailor, citizens of London, app...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1593
Extent:
1 roll

204. Egerton Roll 8798

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Roll 8798
Title:
Inventory of the possessions of Alice Smythe, widow of Thomas Smythe of London
Scope & Content:
Inventory of the possessions of Alice Smythe (née Judde), widow of Thomas Smythe (1522-91) of London. Seen, valued and appraised on 30 June 1593 by Richard Rogers, goldsmith, Richard Osborne, draper, William Greenway, merchant tailor, and Hugh Sherriot, merchant tailor, citizens of London, appoi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1593
Extent:
1 roll

205. Harley Ch 43 B 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 43 B 7
Title:
Grant by Margaret, countess of Kent, to Philip Basset of property in Awlham (?) and Fordham
Scope & Content:
Grant by Margaret (1187x1195-1259), sister of the king of Scots, countess of Kent, to Philip Basset of all her lands, people and service which she held by gift of her husband Hubert de Burgh (c. 1170-1243), once earl of Kent, in the vills of Awlham (?) and Fordham. Date based on the deaths of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1243-1249
Extent:
1 leaf

206. Harley Ch 44 C 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 44 C 2
Title:
Release by Isabella, prioress of Cheshunt, to John Warren of 10s in quit rent
Scope & Content:
Release by Isabella, prioress of Cheshunt [Hertfordshire], to John Warren of 10s in quit rent from 40s annual rent from his tenement in Thames Street, St Botolph Billingsgate parish, London; given 26 December 1474. Affixed with a fragmentary seal of Isabella, lozenge, red, with the Virgin and C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1474
Extent:
1 leaf

207. Harley Ch 44 E 16

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 44 E 16
Title:
Release by Elizabeth, prioress of Hampole Priory, of 30s in rents
Scope & Content:
Release by Elizabeth, prioress of Hampole Priory [Yorkshire], of 30s from Lady Alice Broun, guardian of the lands and heir of John Fitzwilliam, once of Atwick [Yorkshire], from rents in Alnwick [Northumberland]; given the feast of St John the Evangelist [27 December] 1505. Affixed with an imper...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1505
Extent:

1 leaf

208. Harley Ch 44 F 36

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 44 F 36
Title:
Release by Dorothy, abbess of the Poor Clares without Aldgate, to the prior of New Place Church, Surrey
Scope & Content:
Release by Dorothy, abbess of the Abbey of Poor Clares without Aldgate, to the prior of the Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Thomas the Martyr in New Place, Surrey, of 4s rent from lands and tenements in Old Fish Street, the parish of St Nicholas Coldabbey, London; given 8 November 1524. Aff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1524
Extent:
1 leaf

209. Harley Ch 45 A 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 45 A 37
Title:
Record of the testimony of Margery, wife of Walter Dun, of the descent of lands in Porton
Scope & Content:
Record of the testimony of Margery, wife of Walter Dun, of the descent of lands in Porton, Wiltshire, over multiple generations, from Renaud of Ramsbury down to Walter and Margery. If Robert, Margery’s heir, has no heirs of his own, it shall revert back to the heirs of Renaud.Followed by certifi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1376
Extent:
1 leaf

210. Harley Ch 45 B 27

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 45 B 27
Title:
Grant by Elias d'Aubigny, Hawise, his fiancé, and Oliver and Ralph, her sons, to Newsham Abbey, of a share in Saxilby Church and land in Driholm
Scope & Content:
Grant by Elias d'Aubigny, Hawise, his fiancé, and Oliver and Ralph, her sons, to Newsham Abbey, Lincolnshire, of a third of Saxilby Church, Lincolnshire, and 20 acres of meadow in Driholm, Lincolnshire; addressed to Lincoln Cathedral Priory. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘Carta de T[er]rcia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

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