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1. Add Ch 6026

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Title:
Grant by Aubrey de Vere and Isabel de Bolebec to Woburn Abbey of tenements in Warndon
Scope & Content:
Grant by Aubrey de Vere (b. c. 1163, d. 1214] and Isabel de Bolebec (b. c.. 1164, d. 1245), for their souls and those of all their ancestors and heirs, to Woburn Abbey [Bedfordshire], of all their tenements in Warndon [Bedfordshire] pertaining to the fee of Bolebec, which Walter de Bolebec held;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1184-1194
Extent:
1 leaf

2. Add Ch 10594

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Title:
Grant by Richard de Camville and Eustacia Basset, his wife, to Bicester Priory
Scope & Content:
Grant by Richard de Camville (d. 1217) and Eustacia Basset, his wife, for their souls and those of their ancestors and successors, to Bicester Priory [Oxfordshire] and Prior Robert, of a messuage that was once held by Walter of Crockewelle; dated between Richard and Eustacia’s marriage in 1200 a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1200-1217
Extent:

1 leaf

3. Add Ch 10605

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Title:
Grant by Richard de Campville and Eustacia his wife to Bicester Priory of tithes in Bicester, Stratton and Wretchwick
Scope & Content:
Grant by Richard de Campville and Eustacia his wife to Bicester Priory of all their tithes of hay from their lands in Bicester, Stratton and Wretchwick [Oxfordshire]. Endorsed: in a faded 15th-century hand, Bicester [text illegible] / tythes in stratt byr wrase’. Affixed with two seals. First...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

4. Add Ch 10608

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Add Ch 10608
Title:
Confirmation by Sybilla of Kaversfeld, widow of Hugh Gargate, to Bicester Priory of land in Stratton
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by Sybilla of Caversfield [Oxfordshire], widow of Hugh Gargate, to St Eadburh the Virgin and Bicester Priory [Oxfordshire], for her soul and those of her parents, Hugh, and her ancestors and successors, of a virgate of land in Stratton [Audley, Oxfordshire] with appurtenances, which...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

5. Add Ch 10619

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Title:
Quitclaim by Ela de Audley to Bicester Priory of land in Wrethwick
Scope & Content:
Quitclaim by Ela de Audley (d. 1299), widow of James Audley (d. 1272) and daughter of William Longspée the Younger (d. 1250), to St Eadburh the Virgin and Bicester Priory [Oxfordshire], of all her right in 2 carucates of land in Wretchwick in Bicester parish, which she had by the gift of her fat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1273-1274
Extent:
1 leaf

6. Add Ch 13038

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Title:
Letter of attorney from Ismania, widow of Laurence Berkerolles
Scope & Content:
Grant by Ismania, once the wife of Laurence Berkerolles, to John Forster, John Chount and Walter Deneby, appointing them her attorneys to receive her dowry of all of the lands and tenements that Laurence once held in Gloucestershire and the Welsh March in the same county; given at Ouleknolle, Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1411
Extent:
1 leaf

7. Add Ch 15584

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Title:
Grant by Matilda, abbess of Barking Abbey, to Henry Lohot, of tenements in Tollesbury
Scope & Content:
Grant by Matilda [illegitimate daughter of Henry II], abbess of Barking Abbey [Essex], at the petition of Geoffrey son of Baldwin, to Henry Lohot, for his service and homage to the abbey, of all the tenements that Geoffrey had in Tollesbury [Essex]. In return, Henry gives the abbey 4 marks of si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1175-1202
Extent:
1 leaf

8. Add Roll 17253

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Title:
Will of Margaret Paston
Scope & Content:
Will of Margaret Paston (1422-84), widow, wife of John Paston senior and daughter and heir of John Mautby. She leaves her body to be buried in the aisle of Mautby Church, Norfolk, before the image of the Virgin Mary and beside the bodies of her ancestors, and gives 20s to the church. She makes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1482
Extent:
1 roll

9. Add Ch 17295

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Title:
Will of Gunnilda atte Denne
Scope & Content:
Will of Gunnilda atte Denne, leaving her body to be buried in the churchyard of St Peter Newdigate [Surrey], and making bequests to that church for her obit mass, to the poor, her family and friends, and appointing executors; dated 12 April 1318. Probate certificate by John, rector of Lanihook,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1318
Extent:
1 leaf

10. Add Ch 17741

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Title:
Lease by Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England, to John Wode, of the hundreds of Gallow, Brothercross and North Greenhoe
Scope & Content:
Lease by Elizabeth Woodville (b. c. 1437, d. 1492), Queen of England and wife of Edward IV (r. 1461-1470, 1471-1483), to John Wode, of the hundreds of Gallow, Brothercross and North Greenhoe, Norfolk, for the term of three years. The charter is an indenture, given on 24 November 1467 [7 Edward I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
24 Nov 1467
Extent:
1 leaf

11. Add Ch 18791

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Title:
Will of Katherine Cook of St Andrew’s parish, Lewes
Scope & Content:
Will of Katherine Cook of St Andrew’s parish, Lewes [Sussex], leaving her body to St Mary’s Chapel in St Michael the Archangel’s Church, Lewes, next to the tomb of her husband John Cooke, leaving money to that and other churches, for her tomb, masses for her soul, and to her daughter Agnes Chamb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1504-1505
Extent:
1 leaf

12. Add Ch 19146

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Title:
Will of Margaret, widow of John de Covert
Scope & Content:
Will of Margaret, widow of John de Covert, knight, leaving her body to be buried in the chapel of St Mary Sullington [Sussex], and leaving money for her burial, obituary mass, and the poor, and making bequests to friends and family, the friars of several towns, Sullington Church, and appointing ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1367
Extent:
1 leaf

13. Add Ch 19573

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Title:
Grant by Adeliza of Louvain, widowed Queen of England, to Reading Abbey, for the maintenance of the lights before the body of Henry I
Scope & Content:
Adeliza of Louvain (b. c. 1103, d. 1151), widowed Queen of England and second wife of Henry I (r. 1100-1135), grants lands and a church in her manor of Stanton, Oxfordshire, to Reading Abbey, for the maintenance of the lights before the body of the King, buried in the abbey. Witnessed by Herman...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1135 and 1151
Extent:
1 leaf

14. Add Ch 19989

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Title:
Chirograph by Agatha La Bernarde, widow of Lord Ralph Fitz Bernard, granting a grove to her daughter Johanna
Scope & Content:
A chirograph of Agatha La Bernarde, widow of Lord Ralph Fitz Bernard, granting her daughter Johanna, a grove (gravam) called 'le sopperes wode'; given at ‘Elunder’ [possibly Ellenden, Kent?], the Sunday after the Translation of St Thomas the Martyr, 7 Edward II [8 July 1313]. Endorsed: in a lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1313
Extent:
1 leaf

15. Add Ch 20394

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Title:
Grant by Matilda de Wateville to Bruern Abbey of land in Colesbourne
Scope & Content:
Grant by Matilda de Wateville to Bruern Abbey [Oxfordshire] of all her land and that of her father in Colesbourne [Gloucestershire], which Helias of Colesbourne had granted them there. Endorsed: in a late 12th-century hand, ‘Calesburn / Matildis de Watervill / de t[er]ra q[uam] Elyas iniam tenu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

16. Add Ch 20559

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Add Ch 20559
Title:
Grant by Hawise, countess of Aumale, to Fulk de Oiri, of land in Hedon
Scope & Content:
Grant by Hawise [d. 1214], countess of Aumale, to Fulk de Oiri of land in Hedon, Yorkshire. Addressed to the bailiff of Hedon and all the people of the same vill; dated to between 1179, when Hawise became countess, and 1214, when she died. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘Hedonn’. Affixed wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1179-1214
Extent:
1 leaf

17. Add Ch 20568

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Add Ch 20568
Title:
Quitclaim by Alice de Lacy, mother of the earl of Lincoln, to Holy Trinity Abbey, York
Scope & Content:
Quitclaim by Alice de Lacy [of Saluzzo], mother of the earl of Lincoln [Henry de Lacy, d. 1311], to Holy Trinity Abbey, York, of all her right in the advowson of Leeds Church; given at Rothwell [Yorkshire], 22 November 1310. Endorsed: in a 14th-century hand, 'De eccl[es]ia de Ledes.' Affixed w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1310
Extent:
1 leaf

18. Add Ch 21703

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Title:
Grant by Matilda, countess of Clare, to Stephen of Chewat, her clerk, of lands in Dralston
Scope & Content:
Grant by Matilda, countess of Clare, to Stephen of Chewat (Cehetun), her clerk, of whatever is in her fee in Dralston, in woods, plains and within and without the vill; dated to when Robert was recorded as sheriff. Witnesses include Robert son of Sawin [fl. 1170], sheriff of Northamptonshire. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1170
Extent:
1 leaf

19. Add Ch 22566

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Add Ch 22566
Title:
Quitclaim by Isabella, widow of Warin of Bassingburn, to William de Briançon, lord of West Thurrock, of her rights to land in Breckenham and elsewhere
Scope & Content:
Quitclaim by Isabella, widow of Warin of Bassingburn, to William de Briançon [d. 1310], lord of West Thurrock, of all the rights she had in the lands and tenements which William has in Breckenham, Rossworth, and Shadwell in Norfolk, and Teversham in Cambridgeshire, which Warin, her husband, sold...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1287-1310
Extent:
1 leaf

20. Add Ch 23365

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Title:
Inspection and confirmation of a grant to William Aumbesas and Johanna, his wife, of the manor of Carshalton
Scope & Content:
Chirograph inspection and confirmation by Richard of Chissebeth and Henry of Creton of a grant by William of Frenlles to William Aumbesas and Johanna, his wife, of the manor of Carshalton [Surrey]. Affixed with two seals. The first, an imperfect equestrian seal of William, oval, green, with him...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1307
Extent:
1 leaf

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