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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 584
Title:: Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne; Discours des Ceremonies du Sacre et mariage d'Anne de Foix avec Ladislaus Roy de Hongrie
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two French works attributed to Pierre Choque (b. c. 1450, d. 1530), herald and king of arms at the court of Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), Queen of France. The first text is the Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne, beginning with a dedication to the 'Sire de ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1514
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 776
Title:: Cartulary of the estates of John de Vaux and his daughter and co-heiress Petronilla de Narford
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a cartulary, containing copies of charters and deeds in Latin, relating to the estates of the English nobleman Sir John de Vaux, alias Vallibus (b. c. 1220, d. 1287), in Norfolk and Suffolk, and particularly the inheritance of his daughter and coheiress Pernel, also known as P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 956
Title:: John Croke, Psalms in English verse
Scope & Content:: A girdle-book containing a collection of thirteen Psalms, translated into English verse and apparently written by the legal official John Croke (b. 1489, d. 1554) in his own hand. Another copy of the text, without the hymn ‘Veni Creator’ but including Psalm 31, is now Add MS 30981, which is al...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1540
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Topham Ch 19
Title:: Receipt of Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate, London, for the lease of the rectory of Hartington
Scope & Content:: Receipt by Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Abbey of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate, London, confirming she and the convent had received from George [Talbot] (1468-1538), earl of Shropshire [Shrewsbury], £26 30s 4d, for the lease of the rectory of Hartington, Derbyshire, and the hou...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1526
Extent:: 1 leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: Wolley Ch IX 70
Title:: Grant by William Ireland of Yeldersely to Dulcissa, widow of Robert Ireland, of messuages, lands and rents
Scope & Content:: Chirograph between William Ireland of Yeldersley, esquire, and Dulcissa, once the wife of Robert Ireland of the same, granting Dulcissa messuages, land and rents in Yeldersley and Locko as her dower for life, with a description of their location; given at Yeldersley, 1 November 1435. Endorsed: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1435
Extent:: 1 leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: Wolley Ch XII 31a
Title:: Probate certificate of the will of Agnes Fearne
Scope & Content:: Probate certificate by Matthew Parker (1504-75), archbishop of Canterbury, for the will of Agnes Fearne; dated 8 February 1575.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1575
Extent:: 1 leaf

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