Letter from the Raja Bendahara of Brunei to the English captain at Jambi
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Letter in Malay in Jawi script from the Raja Bendahara Paduka Seri Maharaja Permaisuara of Brunei to the English captain at Jambi, requesting help in procuring saltpetre and blankets. The English factory at Jambi on the east coast of Sumatra lasted from 1615 to 1679.
Grant of King Harthacnut of England and Denmark (r. 1040–1042) to Bishop Ælfwine of Winchester (d. 1047)
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King Harthacnut grants one hide (mansa) at Seolescumb (probably Coomb in East Meon, Hampshire) to to Bishop Ælfwine of Winchester; dated 1042, with English bounds (Sawyer, no. 994). Endorsed in a contemporary hand, ‘+ þis is þare hide boc to seoles cumbe.’; and in a 16th-century hand [?].
Grant of Isabel, Countess de Warenne, to the priory of St Katherine, Lincoln
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Isabel, Countess de Warenne (b. c. 1137, d. c. 1203) grants easements for 60 beasts to the priory of St Katherine, Lincoln, for the soul of her husband Earl Hamelin de Warenne (b. c. 1130, d. 1202). Endorsed: 'Cart[a]'. Affixed with a seal (now damaged) of a standing female figure (Birch, Catalogue ...
Grant of King John of England (r. 1199–1216) to William de Belver
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Grant of King John of England to William de Belver, the son of William de Albineius, and to his heirs, that they may have a market at Bridgeford [Staffordshire], on any Thursday, and one fair in the same place each year through the three 'dies duraturam', that is the day of the Feast of St Peter ad ...
Release by Isabella, prioress of Cheshunt, to John Warren of 10s in quit rent
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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 Child ...
Release by Elizabeth, prioress of Hampole Priory, of 30s in rents
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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 imperfect ...
Release by Dorothy, abbess of the Poor Clares without Aldgate, to the prior of New Place Church, Surrey
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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. Affixed ...
Record of payments on behalf of Joan de Valence, countess of Pembroke
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Record of payments made on behalf of Joan de Valence, countess of Pembroke, by her treasurer, Ralph de Sutton, including for almonds and figs from Bristol and other goods from Kent. Given at Goodrich Castle, Monday next after the feast of St Matthew the Apostle [25 September], 1302. Affixed with a s...
