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Add MS 27450
- Record Id:
- 032-002030891
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002030891
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x0002e9
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- Add MS 27450
- Title:
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Paston papers
- Scope & Content:
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Contents: Abstract of examinations of witnesses concerning Sit John Fastolf's will, 1465-1466.
ff. 2r-11v: Depositions of John Paston, taken in 1465
ff. 12v-68v: Depositions of witnesses on behalf of William Yelverton and William Worcester, taken in May and June, 1466, as follows:
ff. 12v-31v: John Monke alias Smyth, 17 May;
ff. 31v-34v John Dawson, 19 May;
ff. 34v-37v: John Gyrdyng, 19 May;
ff. 38r-39v: William Boswell, 20 May;
ff. 39v-41v: Robert Inglys, 20 May;
ff. 41v-43v: Ricardus Horne, 20 May;
ff. 43v-45r: Thomas Pykeryng, 20 May;
ff. 45r-47r: Henry Clerke, 21 May;
ff. 47r-48r: John Tovy, 21 May;
ff. 48v-50v: Thomas Hert, 21 May;
ff. 50v-53r: William Shawe, 21 May;
ff. 53r-56r: Nicholas Cherche, 21 May;
ff. 56r-58r: Thomas Newton; 22 May;
ff. 58r-59v: Thomas Spycer, 22 May;
ff. 59v-61r: Thomas Neve, 22 May;
ff. 61r-62v: John Rugge, 23 May;
ff. 62v-64v: John Clerke, 23 May;
ff. 64v-66r: Robert Bunche 23 May;
ff. 66v-67v: Stephen Scrope, 10 June;
ff. 67v-68v: Ricardus Fastolf, 11 June.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- 032-002030891
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002030891
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A paper codex, 69 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1465
- End Date:
- 1466
- Date Range:
- 1465-1466
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper, with parchment flyleaves.
Dimensions: 300 x 220mm (text space: 245 x 125mm).
Foliation: ff. 69 (ff. 1 and 69 are parchment flyleaves + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end and a paper slip attached after the 3rd flyleaf).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Green leather with gold tooling and marbled end-papers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance: William Paston (b. 1653/4, d. 1732) 2nd Earl of Yarmouth, by descent through the Paston family.
Peter le Neve (d. 1729), collector and antiquary, purchased by him from William Paston (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900), I, p. 4).
Thomas Martin (d. 1771), antiquary of Palgrave, acquired by him as executor of Peter le Neve (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900) I, p. 4).
John Worth, chemist of Diss, sold by him in 1774 to John Fenn (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900) I, p. 6).
John Fenn (b. 1739, d. 1794), antiquary, not published by him but stored with the letters that were published in his Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III , volume V (now Additional MSS 27443-27446) and with letters from the 16th and 17th centuries (now Additional MSS 27447-27448).
?John Frere (b. 1740, d. 1807), landowner and antiquary of Roydon Hall, brother-in-law of John Fenn and inheritor of his library, though his son, William Frere, was unable to find Fenn's manuscripts in the library in 1823 (see Davis, Paston Letters (2004), I, pp. xxviii-xxx).
Philip Frere (b. 1821), F.R.S., by descent and found by him at Dungate in Cambridgeshire in 1865, part of a large collection of letters and papers from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries; sold by him to the British Museum on 13 October, 1866.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III..., ed. by John Fenn, 5 vols (London, Robinsons, 1787-1823), V (1823).
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1882), II, p. 321.
The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D., ed. by James Gairdner, 4 vols (Westminster, 1900-1901); 6 vols (London and Exeter, 1904).
H.S. Bennett, The Pastons and their England: Studies in an Age of Transition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937).
Norman Davis, 'A Scribal Problem in the Paston Letters', English and Germanic Studies, 4 (1952), 31-64.
David Stoker, ''Innumerable letters of good consequence in history': the discovery and first publication of the Paston letters', The Library, 6th series, 17 (1995), 107–55.
Colin Richmond, The Paston family in the fifteenth century, 3 vols (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996-2001).
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, ed. by Norman Davis, 3 vols, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series, 20-22 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [an edition of the texts in this and other manuscripts, with notes and additional bibliography].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Fastolf, John, soldier and landowner, 1380-1459
Fenn, John, Sir, antiquary, b 1739 d 1794
Paston I, John, son of William Paston I, 1421-1466
Paston, Family
Worcester, William, alias Botoner; clerk to Sir J Fastolf of Caistor, 1415-1485
Wyrcestre,, William, alias Botener
Yelverton, William, Justice, knighted in 1461, d. 1477 - Related Material:
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From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1882):
'EXAMINATIONS of John Paston and others, witnesses, touching the will of Sir John Fastolf, knight, of Caistor, co. Norfolk [ob. 1459], in the cause between Sir William Yelverton, knight, and William Worcester, executors by pretension, and John Paston and Thomas Howys, clerk, executors 1465, 1466. Paper; xvth cent. Folio.'