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21. Add Ch 23674

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Title:
Quitclaim by Gonnora, widow of William Banastre of Wallington, to the Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, Southwark, of half the rent owed on lands given by her husband
Scope & Content:
Quitclaim by Gonnora, widow of William Banastre of Wallington, Surrey, to the Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, Southwark, for William’s soul, of half the rent owed by the hospital for the 6 acres of land which William had given them. Should be dated after 1228 according to Birch, Catalogue of Seals...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

22. Add Ch 24243

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Title:
Will of Margery, widow of John Todenham, knight
Scope & Content:
Will of Margery, widow of John Todenham, knight, leaving her body to be buried in the chancel of the Austin Friars, Thetford [Norfolk], next to the tomb of her daughter Elizabeth Homgrave, and leaving bequests to that and other churches, and appointing executors, with the signature of Thomas Martin;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1411-1416
Extent:

1 document

23. Add Ch 26317

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Title:
Will of Joanna Lane, widow of Nicholas Lane of Snape
Scope & Content:
Will of Joanna Lane, widow of Nicholas Lane of Snape, Suffolk. She asks to be buried in the churchyard of Snape Church, and makes bequests to her daughters, her goddaughter, and her goddaughter’s family, and appoints executors. Dated 20 November 1500. Dorse: Probate certificate by Roger Church and T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1500-1501
Extent:
1 leaf

24. Add Ch 28479

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Title:
Grant by Isabella de Brus to Hatfield Regis Priory
Scope & Content:
Grant by Isabella de Brus (d. 1252), daughter of Earl David [of Huntingdon], to Hatfield Regis Priory of all the service owed to her by Nicholas Bus and his heirs. The document is undated, but Isabella was granted the manor of Hatfield Regis by Henry III (r. 1216-1272) in 1238. Endorsed: in a 17th-c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1238 and 1252
Extent:
1 leaf

25. Add Ch 28766

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Title:
Will of Isabella Russell, widow of John Churchhay of Frome
Scope & Content:
Will of Isabella Russell, widow of John Churchhay of Frome, leaving bequests to Langley Priory, Langley Chapel, Merston Church [all Somerset], her friends, relatives, and the chapel of St Katherine; dated 24 February 1361. Endorsed: in a 14th-century hand, ‘Certander’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1361
Extent:
1 leaf

26. Add Ch 47517

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Title:
Grant by Hawise, countess of Gloucester, to Nuneaton Priory, of land at Pimperne
Scope & Content:
Grant by Hawise [de Beaumont, d. 1197], countess of Gloucester, for her soul and those of William, her husband [d. 1183], earl of Gloucester, her children, and all her ancestors and successors, to Nuneaton Priory [Leicestershire], of 100s of land in her manor of Pimperne [Dorset], and leaving her bo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1191-1197
Extent:
1 leaf

27. Add Ch 47552

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Title:
Confirmation by Petronilla, countess of Leicester, to Nuneaton Priory, of the donation made by her son Robert, earl of Leicester
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by Petronilla [de Grandmesnil, d. 1212], countess of Leicester, for her soul and those of her parents, her bridegroom [sponsus] Earl Robert [de Beaumont, earl of Leicester, d. 1190], her sons and daughters, and all her ancestors, to Nuneaton Priory, of the donation of her son Robert [de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1190-1204
Extent:
1 leaf

28. Add Ch 47584

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Title:
Grant by Isabel, countess of Northampton, to Nuneaton Priory, of land in Groby
Scope & Content:
Grant by Isabel [de Beaumont, d. a. 1188], countess of Northampton, for her parents’ souls and those of her brother Robert [de Beaumont, d. 1190], earl of Leicester, W. de Britollia, and her ancestors and successors, to Nuneaton Priory [Leicestershire], of a bovate of land in Groby [Leicestershire],...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

29. Add Ch 47615

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Title:
Grant by Amicia de Craft, to Nuneaton Priory, of a moiety of her mill in Sapcote and her body
Scope & Content:
Grant by Amicia de Craft, with the consent of William Basset her son, for her soul and those of her children, her predecessors and successors, to Nuneaton Priory [Leicestershire], of a moiety of her mill in Sapcote [Leicestershire] and her body. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘Carta Amicis de Cra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

30. Add Ch 54069

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Title:
Grant by Philip II of Spain and Mary I of England to Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, of property in the hundreds of Bury and Rotherbridge
Scope & Content:
Grant by Philip II (king of Spain, r. 1556-1598) and Mary I of England (r. 1553-1558), styled 'King and Queen of England, France, Naples, Jerusalem and Ireland', to Henry Fitzalan (b. 1512, d. 1580), 12th Earl of Arundel, of manors, lands and other properties in the hundreds of Bury and Rotherbridge...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1555
Extent:

1 document

31. Add Ch 60433

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Title:
Will and probate certificate of Margaret Hervy of Ryburgh
Scope & Content:
Will and probate certificate of Margaret Hervy of Ryburgh [Norfolk]. She leaves her body to Ryburgh Church, makes bequests to her children Robert, Thomas and Elizabeth, and appoints Robert Hempton and Elizabeth Hervy as her executors; given 1508. Dorse: probate certificate by the official of the arc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1508
Extent:
1 leaf

32. Add Ch 62464

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Title:
Grant by Philip and Mary to Anne Fortescue, of manors in Gloucestershire
Scope & Content:
Grant by Philip and Mary to Anne Fortescue, widow of Sir Adrian Fortescue and now the wife of Thomas Parry, of the manors of Barton Abbots, Chipping Sodbury, Codrington and Washbourne (Gloucestershire). Given 2 September 1557. Affixed with a fragmentary great seal of Philip and Mary, oval, brown, wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1557
Extent:
1 document

33. Add Ch 67394

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Title:
Testimony by Friar John Bradfield and others of a deathbed statement by William of Lener concerning the divorce of Robert Pilkington of Rovington and Alice of Astley
Scope & Content:
Friar John Bradfield, Robert of Hebton, William Brechton of Ekygan and John Fogg of Bradshaw testify that they heard William of Lener on his deathbed say that, when Alice of Hulton lay dying, he heard Richard French of Bolton say that the divorce between Robert of Pilkington of Rovington and Alice o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1447
Extent:
1 leaf

34. Add Ch 70581

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Title:
Will of Margaret Canon, granting to John Lye and Thomas Russell of Hythe all of her lands and tenements in Hythe
Scope & Content:
Will of Margaret Canon, granting to John Lye and Thomas Russell of Hythe all of her lands and tenements in Hythe, Kent, once held by her feoffees John Chilton, John Prylle and Robert Combe; given 12 October 1424. Endorsed: in a 15th-century hand, ‘Test[amentum] Marg[eret]ie / Canon sup[er] / elemosi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1424
Extent:
1 leaf

35. Add Ch 74042

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Title:
Indenture between Isabel, wife of Henry of Torbok, and John Dunville and several others, cancelling a debt
Scope & Content:
John Dunville, Mayow Dunville, John de Holford, Edward Mascy, John le Mascy of Wymyncham on one part and Isabel, who was the wife of Henry of Torbok, cancelling of a bond owed by Isabel; given Friday after the feast of St Valentine [17 February] 1396. Endorsed: in a faded 14th-century hand, ‘defe… d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1396
Extent:
1 leaf

36. Add Ch 76067

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Title:
Grant by Isabella de Boville to Sir William de Ulchot and Elizabeth, her daughter, of a mill in Glosthorpe
Scope & Content:
Grant by Isabella de Boville, widow, to Sir William de Ulchot, knight, and Elizabeth, her daughter, of a mill in Glosthorpe (Norfolk) called the Londmilne. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, 'molendinum in Glosthorp / vocatur londmilne'. Affixed with an imperfect seal, lozenge, red, with a figure thr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1230-1240
Extent:
1 leaf

37. Add Ch 76275

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Title:
Will of Johanna, wife of John Godfrey of South Creake
Scope & Content:
Will of Johanna, wife of John Godfrey of South Creake, Norfolk. Joan leaves her body to be buried in the cemetery of South Creake church and makes bequests of 40d to the church’s altar, 6s 13d for repairs to the church, 1d for the church’s processions, 2 marks for church’s lights, and the rest of he...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1368
Extent:
1 leaf

38. Add Ch 77153

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Title:
Will of Isabella Storke
Scope & Content:
Will of Isabella Storke, wife of William Denton, squire, of the diocese of Ely. Isabella leaves her body to be buried in the chancel of Babraham, Cambridgeshire, and she leaves to William, her husband, all her possessions and a messuage in Soper Lane, the parish of St Pancras, London. She asks that ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
25 Mar 1496
Extent:
1 leaf

39. Add Ch 77735

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Title:
Inspeximus by Henry III of a grant of Aethelred the Unready to Wherwell Abbey
Scope & Content:
Inspection and confirmation by King Henry III of England (r. 1216-1272) of a charter of King Aethelred the Unready (r. 978-1016) for Abbess Heanflaed and Wherwell Abbey (Hampshire), issued before 23 April 1002; given at Westminster, 26 October 1260. The preamble states that the original is now unrea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1260
Extent:
1 leaf

40. Add MS 4899

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Title:
Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a selection of the Sermones (Sermons) by Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), abbot of Clairvaux and one of the leading theologians of the 12th century. The manuscript was produced in England in the 12th century and belonged to the Carthusian abbey of Witham in the 15th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:

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