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51. Cotton Ch IV 13/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 13/2
Title:
Indenture of John Giffard granting John Cotton and Frances Giffard lands in Shropshire
Scope & Content:
Indenture of John Giffard granting John Cotton, son of Thomas Cotton of Gidding Abbots (Huntingdonshire), and Frances Giffard, Giffard's daughter and Cotton's intended wife, the site of the former White Ladies Priory of St Leonard, Brewood (Shropshire), and lands in Stafford, a house in Boscobel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1632
Extent:
1 leaf

52. Cotton Ch IV 13/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 13/3
Title:
Draft bond of John Cotton of Gidding Abbas to John Giffard of Boscobel for £4000 for Giffard to hold lands in Shropshire
Scope & Content:
Draft bond of John Cotton of Gidding Abbas (Huntingdonshire), son of Thomas Cotton, to John Giffard of Boscobel (Shropshire), for £4000 for Giffard to hold the site of the former White Ladies Priory of St Leonard, Brewood (Shropshire), and lands in Stafford, a house in Boscobel, and the farm of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1632
Extent:
1 leaf

53. Cotton Ch IV 13/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 13/4
Title:
Acknowledgement by John Giffard of Boscobel of a debt of £1000 he owes to John Cotton
Scope & Content:
Acknowledgement by John Giffard of Boscobel (Shropshire) in the Court of Chancery of a debt of £1000 he owes to John Cotton, son of Thomas Cotton. Signatures of Richard Moore, chancery master, dated 29 June, and of John Giffard. Given at Westminster, 20 June 1632.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1632
Extent:
1 leaf

54. Cotton Ch IV 13/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 13/5
Title:
Bond of John Cotton, Francis Gaston and Thomas Bedingfield, with Thomas Geers, for £200
Scope & Content:
Recto: Bond of John Cotton of Gidding (Huntingdonshire), son of Thomas Cotton, Francis Gaston of Clauden (Surrey), and Thomas Bedingfield of Oxborough (Norfolk), esquires, with Thomas Geers of St Benets' parish, Paul's Wharf, London, gentleman, for £200, for payment of £102. Given 17 March 1638...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1638
Extent:
1 leaf

55. Cotton Ch IV 14

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 14
Title:
Poetic exercises; copies of charters relating to Warmington Priory
Scope & Content:
A leaf possibly removed from a codex belonging to Warmington Priory, a cell of Préaux Abbey, Normandy. p. 1: Exercises in leonine verses and other rhyming metres. p. 2: Copy of an arbitration by John of Stotuwelle, rector of Covinton (Huntingdonshire), and William of Bocthon, rector of Warming...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 leaf

56. Cotton Ch IV 15

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 15
Title:
Order of Henry VI to the Keeper of the Privy Seal to have the Chancellor draw up letters patent appointing William Cotton as Keeper of the Great Wardrobe
Scope & Content:
Order of King Henry VI of England (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471) to Master Andrew Holes, Keeper of the Privy Seal, to make out letters to the Lord Chancellor, ordering him to draw up letters patent appointing William Cotton as Keeper of the Great Wardrobe following the resignation of Thomas Tuddenham...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1450
Extent:
1 leaf

57. Cotton Ch IV 16

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 16
Title:
Letter of John Hawkwood to the rulers of Siena asking that they send troops to Lucignano
Scope & Content:
Letter of John Hawkwood (d. 1394), captain-general and condottiere, to the Council of the Nine Governors and Defenders of the Commune of Siena, asking that they send cavalry, infantry and crossbowmen to Lucignano (Arrezo, Tuscany). Written at Civitella, 1 May 1382. Endorsed: 'Magnificis et pot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1382
Extent:
1 leaf

58. Cotton Ch IV 17

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 17
Title:
Execution speech of Edward Seymour
Scope & Content:
This single leaf contains an account of the speech given by Edward Seymour (b. 1500, d. 1552), 1st Duke of Somerset, on 22 January 1552, on the scaffold at Tower Hill, awaiting execution on a charge of felony (or 'seeking a change of government'). The brief account records the text of the speech...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 leaf

59. Cotton Ch IV 18

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 18
Title:
Grant of privileges by King Æthelstan of England to St John’s, Beverley
Scope & Content:
Grant of privileges by King Æthelstan of England (r. 924-939) to St John’s, Beverley, in Middle English verse. Dated 925 (for 927 × 939). Spurious (Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, no. 451). Endorsed in a 16th-century hand, ‘Carta ædelstani facta sancto Iohanni beuerl’ 925 sinceroque[?]’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 leaf

60. Cotton Ch IV 19

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 19
Title:
Writ from the king to the bishop of Bath and Wells ordering him to have the customers of the port of Bristol give cloth to Sir Roger Cotton
Scope & Content:
Writ from the king of England to the bishop of Bath and Wells, Keeper of the Privy Seal, ordering him to make out letters under the privy seal to the customers of the port of Bristol, ordering them to give five broadcloths of fine red for 7 nobles or 4 marks each to Sir Roger Cotton, knight of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1443-1467
Extent:
1 leaf

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