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1. Add Ch 5686-5718

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Add Ch 5686-5718
Title:
THIRTY-THREE Charters, Deeds, and other instruments, relating to lands in Eton, Stowford, Steeple Ashton, Marlborough, Farley, Rowley, Bradford, Iford, Westwood, North Bradley, Kevell, Rode, Tellysford or Tolleford [Tollard ?], Peiwsham, Melksliam, West Lavington, and Devizes, and to the manors of Hulfryngtone [Hilperton], Winfield, Broughton Gifford, Chitterne, Southwick, Overcourt, Elston, Whaddon, and Trowbridge, the chapel of St. George in Semington, and the rectories of Winfield and Wha...
Scope & Content:
Eaton, Wiltshire: Charters relating to lands there: John-1656. Stony Littleton, Somerset: Charters relating to lands there: John- 1656. Kevell [Keynell?], Wiltshire: Charters relating to lands there: John-1656. Frome-selwood, Somerset: Charters relating to lands there: John-1656. Farley, Wil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1199-1656
Extent:
33 items

2. Add Ch 19577

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Add Ch 19577
Title:
Grant by Empress Matilda to Reading Abbey of lands in Blewbury
Scope & Content:
Empress Matilda (b. 1102, d. 1167), daughter of Henry I, King of England (r. 1100-1135), grants to Reading Abbey the town of Blewbury, Berkshire, for the commemoration of the souls of Henry, her father, Matilda, her mother, and in acknowledgment of the service of Brian fitz Count (fl. 1125–1142)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1143 and 1147
Extent:
1 leaf

3. Add Ch 19579

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Add Ch 19579
Title:
Grant by Empress Matilda to Reading Abbey of lands in Blewbury (duplicate)
Scope & Content:
Empress Matilda (b.1102, d. 1167), daughter of Henry I, King of England (r. 1100-1135), grants to Reading Abbey the town of Blewbury, Berkshire, for the souls of Henry, her father, and Matilda, her mother, and in acknowledgment of the service of Brian fitz Count (fl. 1125–1142). Given at Deviz...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1143 and 1147
Extent:
1 leaf

4. Add Ch 20420

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Add Ch 20420
Title:
Confirmation by Empress Matilda to Bordesley Abbey of lands in Bordesley and elsewhere
Scope & Content:
Empress Matilda (b. c. 1102, d. 1167), daughter of Henry I, King of England (r. 1100-1135), confirms to Bordesley Abbey a grant of lands in Bordesley and several other towns (all in Worcestershire), together with the advowson of Tardebigge church (then in Staffordshire, now Worcestershire), a sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1141
Extent:

1 leaf

5. Add Ch 59676-59678

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Add Ch 59676-59678
Title:
Co. Wilts. Devizes, 1379-1385.
Scope & Content:
Devizes, Wiltshire: Doeds rel. to: 1379-1385.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1379-1385
Extent:
3 items

6. Add Ch 75724

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Add Ch 75724
Title:
Foundation charter of Bordesley Abbey by Empress Matilda
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Empress Matilda (b. c. 1102, d. 1167), daughter of Henry I, King of England (r. 1100-1135), founds the Cistercian abbey of Bordesley and grants it lands and rights. Witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester (b. before 1100, d. 1147); Waleran, Count of Meulan (b. 1104, d. 1166); Milo, Earl of Here...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1141 and 1142
Extent:
1 leaf

7. Add MS 15663

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Add MS 15663
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VOL. II. Translations of the following documents, viz. Writ and inquisition ad quod damn., for a giant of land in Arley co. Warw., from Richard de Caldeford to the church of Arley, for a collect to be said for the soul of Robert Norys, 31 Edw 111. [1357], f. 4 ;-Grant to the town of Merlawe,Grea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1198]-[1812]
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 15664

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VOL. III. Official copies, translations, etc., of the following documents:- Confirmation of the endowment by John, son of Reginald de Grey. of the collegiate church of St. Peter, in Ruthyn, co. Denb., 18 Edw. I. [1280], f. 2; -Confirmation of the charter of Prince Edward, son of Edw. I., as Pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1208]-[1728]
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 15665

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Add MS 15665
Title:
OFFICIAL transcripts and translations of various charters and documents relating to local history; chiefly made under the superintendence of John Bayley, chief clerk at the Tower, viz.:- Endowment by Ralph [Ergham], Bishop of Sarum, of the church of Tisbury [co. Wilts.] , appropriated to the monastery of Shaftesbury, dat. 3 Aug. 1308; an office copy of the 16th century, f. 2;- Inquisition post mort. of the lands of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, in Yorkshire, 28 Edw. I. [1300], transcribed in 1...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 2 Tisbury, Wiltshire: Endowment of the church appropriated to the monastery of Shaftesbury: 1308. f. 2 Shaftesbury, Dorset: Endowment of the church of Tisbury appropriated to the monastery of: 1308. f. 2 Ralph Ergham, Bishop of Sarum: Endowment of the church of Tisbury appropriated...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1300]-1796
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 32324

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Add MS 32324
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Scope & Content:
CORRESPONDENCE and papers of the family of Seymour, Barons Seymour of Trowbridge, and chiefly of Charles Seymour, of Marlborough, who succeeded to the title in 1664, including some papers of the family of Seymour, Earls and Marquesses of Hertford; 1614-1665. The names of the writers will be foun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[1440]-26 Mar 1661
Extent:
1 item