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2511. LFC Ch VII 3

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch VII 3
Title:
Grant by Renaud and Ida, count and countess of Boulogne, to Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Grant by Renaud Dammartin and Ida, count and countess of Boulogne, for the honour of God, St Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury and martyr, and for their souls and those of their parents, and heirs, to Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury, excusing the convent from tolls and customs at Boulo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1190-1214
Extent:
1 leaf

2512. LFC Ch XI 31

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch XI 31
Title:
Lease by Elizabeth I to Hugh Rabone, of a croft
Scope & Content:
After an inquisition into the property of the late Thomas Watwood, held at Wolverhampton on 7 April 1581, who died in debt to the Crown, Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603) leases to Hugh Rabone one of Watwood’s former properties, a croft without pasture called Whitmoors or Le Priors Gyrche, Staffordshir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1582
Extent:
1 leaf

2513. LFC Ch XIV 25

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch XIV 25
Title:
Chirograph of an agreement between Syon Abbey and Spalding Priory
Scope & Content:
Chirograph of an agreement between Elizabeth, prioress of Syon Abbey [Middlesex], and Thomas, prior of Spalding Priory [Lincolnshire], brokered by Margaret [Beaufort] (b. 1443, d. 1509), mother of Henry VII. Since Edward IV’s reign, Spalding owed Syon £10 a year but this went unpaid until the su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1490
Extent:
1 leaf

2514. LFC Ch XIX 12

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch XIX 12
Title:
Grant by Agnes, once the wife of Fulk the smith of Tonge, to William her son and his wife Petronilla
Scope & Content:
Grant by Agnes, once the wife of Fulk the smith of Tonge, to William her son and his wife Petronilla, of all her lands, tenements, rents and service which she has in the manor and lordship of Tonge and outside it; given at Tonge, the feast of St Matthew the Apostle [21 September] 1395. Affixed ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1395
Extent:
1 leaf

2515. LFC Ch XXI 5

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch XXI 5
Title:
Writ of King Edward the Confessor (1003×5–1066) to Archbishop Stigand of Canterbury (d. 1072) and the community at Christ Church
Scope & Content:
Writ of King Edward granting to Archbishop Stigand and the community at Christ Church judicial and financial rights over their own men and over as many thegns as he has granted them to have; 1052 × 1066, probably 1052 (Sawyer, no. 1088). Endorsed in a 12th-century hand, ‘Carta edwardi regis de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1052-1066
Extent:

Parchment leaf

2516. LFC Ch XXV 20

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch XXV 20
Title:
Grant by Idonia of Hurst to Robertsbridge Abbey of all her lands, villeins and rents in Broomhill
Scope & Content:
Grant by Idonia of Hurst [Sussex] to Robertsbridge Abbey [Sussex] of all her lands, villeins and rents in Broomhill [Sussex] in return for one mark of silver for Idonia and a gold talent for her son Robert. Endorsed: in a 16th-century hand, ‘Idonia de Herst / Domina de Prymhell’; in an 18th-cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 12th century to 1st quarter of 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

2517. LFC Ch XXV 21

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch XXV 21
Title:
Grant by Albreda of Old Romney, widow, to Robertsbridge Abbey, of Dudeman’s Land in Pinhall
Scope & Content:
Grant by Albreda of Old Romney [Kent], widow, to Robertsbridge Abbey [Sussex], of all the land in Pinhall that was held by Dudeman called Dudeman’s Land, in return for sixteen marks of silver. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘Albrede de ve… Rume’; in an 18th-century hand, ‘Sans Date'; in a di...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

2518. Loan MS 131

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan MS 131
Title:
Psalter-Hours (The 'Burdett Psalter-Hours')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. [1r-6v]: Calendar, including English saints Edward the Confessor (13 October), Edmund the Martyr (20 November) and Thomas Becket (29 December), and with the early addition of Edmund Rich (16 November); added obits (see Provenance). ff. [7r-12r]: Prefatory cycle of miniatures. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1280-c. 1290
Extent:
1 volume

2519. MS Mus. 1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1
Title:
Henry Purcell and Giovanni Battista Draghi: Keyboard music
Scope & Content:
The 'Purcell/Draghi keyboard manuscript' contains, on folios 1v-12, music by or arranged by Henry Purcell and in his autograph. Reversing the volume, folios 42-12v are by, and almost certainly in the hand of, Giovanni Battista Draghi. Folio 1r contains a musical setting of Draghi’s address in th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1690-1700
Extent:
1 volume (folios ii + 43)

2520. MS Mus. 1, ff 1r-12r

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1, ff 1r-12r
Title:
Henry Purcell: Keyboard music. Autograph score.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1690-1695
Extent:
12 folios

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