Contents: The Westminster Tournament Challenge, an invitation to the Westminster Tournament, the joust held in honour of the birth of a son, Prince Henry, to Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485, d. 1536) on New Year's Day, 1511. The document concludes with the signatur...
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 imper...
Quitclaim by Alice of Haketorn, widow of Alexander Foliot, to Bullington Priory
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Quitclaim by Alice of Haketorn, widow of Alexander [text damaged]-oth, to Bullington Priory [Lincolnshire], of land in the meadows. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘Confirmacio Alicie uxoris / Alex[andri] Folioth in viduitate sua / d[e] dono viti sui. In Hach’. Affixed with an imperfect seal...
Grant by Margaret de Quincy, widow, countess of Winchester, to Ulverscroft Priory
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Grant by Margaret [de Quincy] (d. 1235), widow, countess of Winchester and sister of Robert [de Beaumont] (d. 1204), earl of Leicester, to Prior Walter of Ulverscroft Priory [Leicestershire], of all her land in Ryall [Devon] and Bishop’s Hull [Somerset]. Date based on the death of Margaret’s hu...
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 C...
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 wi...
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 (b. c. 1230, d. 1307), countess of Pembroke, by Ralph de Sutton, her receiver, including to her chaplains at Goodrich Castle (Herefordshire), her attorneys in the ecclesiastical court of the archbishop of Canterbury, medicine from Brother Nich...
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 Ralph de Sutton, her treasurer, including for 6 tuns of wine from Chepstow (Striguil), for a chaplain at Goodrich Castle, for 1 tun of white wine from Bristol, for medicine from Brother Nicholas of Leicester, for 100 ...
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 Ralph de Sutton, her receiver, including to her attorney in the ecclesiastical court of the archbishop of Canterbury, the general chapters of the Dominicans and the Franciscans, to the valet of Lord Thomas of Berkeley...
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 Ralph de Sutton, her receiver, including a gift of 20s to the son of Joan Comyn, her daughter, to Ademar, her son, for his expenses coming to Goodrich from London, to buy a habit for Brother Thomas de Mere, for three ...