WILL of Robert Cobbe, of Earls Colne, co. Essex. Dat. 18 June, 1619. With probate, at Kelvedon [co. Essex], 4 Oct. 1619. Wills: R. Cobbe, of Earl's Colne: 1619. Robert Cobbe, of Earl's Colne, county Essex: Will: 1619.
a, b. WILL of Jane Smith, widow, of Much Tey, co. Essex. Dat. 22 Nov. 1672. With probate at Kelvedon [Co. Essex], 16 May, 1673. Wills: J. Smith, of Much Tey: 1672. Jane Smith, of Much Tey, county Essex: Will: 1672.
WILL of William Everard, of Rivenhall, co. Essex, gent. Dat. 5 Apr. 1687. Wills: W. Everard, of Rivenhall: 1687. William Everard, of Rivenhall, county Essex: Will: 1687.
a, b. WILL of William Ravenscroft, esq. of Pickhill, co. Denbigh. Dat. 18 March, 1692/3. With probate, 24 Nov. 1693. Wills: W. Ravenscroft, of Pickhill: 1693. William Ravenscroft, of Pickhill, county Denbighshire: Will: 1693.
Petition by Joan Astley, nurse of Henry VI, for an increase in salary
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Recto: Petition by Joan, nurse of the king and wife of Thomas Astley, esquire, to Henry VI asking if her letter patent of 28 April 1423 granting her £20 a year could be cancelled in return for a new letter patent granting £40 a year. Dorse: Endorsement noting that Joan’s petition was accepted; ...
VALOR. of the possessions in co. Oxon. of the late John Blundell, esq., which on his death on 20 Sept. 1 Eliz. [1559], descended to Elizabeth, Mary, Theodora, Anne and Susan, his daughters and co-heiresses, livery being given on 23 Sept. to Edmund Hougan and to Jerard Crocker, the husbands respe...
COMPOTUS of the Bailiff of the Hundred of Knyghtlowe [Knightlow, co. Warw.] and of the leets of Stanley [Stoneleigh] and Bryncklowe [Brinklow] in the same hundred. XVIth cent. Vellum roll. Stoneleigh, Warwickshire: Compotus of the bailiff of the leet of: 16th cent. Brinklow, Warwickshire: Comp...
COUNTERPART of a lease by Richard Fines, knt. [Fienes, 7th] Baron Say and Sele, to George Greenwood, of the Inner Temple, London, gent., for £500, of pasture called Middle Norton in Weston Underedge, co. Glouc., for 40 years at a pepper-corn rent. Dat. 20 Oct. 2 Jas. 1. [1604]. This charter wa...
THE BIBLE, in Latin: Vulgate version. Preceded by the Epistle of Jerome to Paulinus (f. 1, "Frater Ambrosius "), and by his preface to the Pentateuch (f. 3). All the books after the Pentateuch have prefaces prefixed, except Judges, Ruth, Psalms, and Song of Songs, while Job, Joel, Jonah, Matthew...