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Wolley Ch xi.31

Record Id:
040-001618490
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-001617696
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000152.0x000291
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Wolley Ch xi.31
Title:
Foundation Charter of Chantry
Scope & Content:

Foundation Charter of Sir John Cokayn, knight, John de Knyveton of Bradley, Roger de Bradburne and Richard Cokayn, that where Nicholas de Knyveton [Kniveton] of Underwood, esquire, deceased, in his last will and testament enfeoffed the above with an annual rent of 100s. from the manor of Mercaston, the same now grant the said annual rent to William de Hyde, chaplain of the church of St Oswald at Ashbourne, to found a chantry at the altar of the Holy Cross in the same church, for prayers for the soul of Joan, widow of the said Nicholas, Henry de Knyveton [Kniveton] and Robert de Knyveton [Kniveton] now living and for their souls after their deaths, and for the souls of Nicholas de Knyveton [Kniveton], William de Knyveton [Kniveton], and Margery his wife, and Thomas de Knyveton , and their parents, ancestors and benefactors, and also for John, duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, from whom the manor was held, and John de Schepye, dean of Lincoln; with regulations and statutes, including the burning of a candle at the tomb of the said Nicholas, with the consent of the vicar of the said church, William de Newneham.Dated Ashbourne, co. Derby.Confirmation of the Grant by the said John [de Schepey], dean of Lincoln, and John [Burghill], bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, dated respectively, Lincoln, 18 May, 1392, and Eccleshall, 10 July 1404.

Dated as: Nativity of the B.V.M., 16 Richard II

Endorsements: Exhibited at the Visitation of Roland [Rowland Lee], bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 2 July 1540. Exhibted at the Visitation of Thomas [Cranmer], archbishop of Canterbury during vacancy of the see of Coventry and Lichfield, 27 February 1542. Exhibited at visitation of Richard [Sampson], bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 20 June 1544. Exhibited at king's visitation; signature of H. Geffcokke, 1537. Exhibited in king's visitation A.D. 1547. Signature of .. Colde.'Of ye retight of Myrcaston to Knyveton chantre In Asheburn'.25 March 1592, 21 R2.'... A Grant of Cs. per Annum out of Mercaston to A Chauntry in the parish Kirk of St Oswold in Ashburne.'

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Charters and Rolls
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-001617696
040-001618490
Is part of:
Wolley Charters : Charters collected by Adam Wolley

 

Wolley Ch xi.31 : Foundation Charter of Chantry
Hierarchy:
032-001617696[0794]/040-001618490
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Wolley Charters
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 deed
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1392
End Date:
1392
Date Range:
[8 Sep 1392]
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Vellum

Dimensions: 485 x 444 mm

Seals:

  • Pendent, Tag and seal missing
  • Pendent, Red wax, round; letter 'S' surrounded by various symbols, within a quatrefoil panel.
  • Pendent, Seal missing
  • Pendent, Red wax, round; a shield of arms: on a bend cotised 3 mullets (see on a bend 3 mullets, for Bradburne), suspended by a strap from a tree, and within a carved gothic panel; inscription, SIGILLU ROGERI DE BRADBURNE. For Roger de Bradburne.
  • Pendent, Red wax, round; within a lattice border, a device; inscription, indistinct.
  • Pendent, Red wax, pointed oval; a male saint, perhaps St John the Evangelist, enthroned, with a flight of steps and rocky sides in the foreground; on the left an unidentified figure, full-length, probably the Dean, and on the right, suspended by a strap from a tree, a shield of arms, the bearings obligterated by pressure; the inscription was a rhyming hexameter verse - SHEPEYE DECANUM ...IA QZ SANUM; for John de Schepye, dean of Lincoln.
  • Pendent, Brown-green wax, pointed oval; figure of the Virgin with Child; [MA]RIA GRACI[A]; for John Burghill, bishop of Lincoln; fragment, right hand side only.

Publications:
I. H. Jeayes, Derbyshire Charters, no. 1693; Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. ii, pp.273 and 246.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Notes:
See Roger de Bradburn, of Plaistow, co. Derby, in 1381, in Wolley Charter vi. 57.
Names:
Blount, Walter, witness of Wolley Ch xi.31
Bradburne, Roger, co-founder of a chantry at Ashbourne, fl 1392
Cokayn [Cockayn], John, subject of Wolley Ch xi.31
Cokayn [Cockayn], Richard
Hyde, William, chaplain and charter witness, fl 1390-1392
Knyveton, John, founder of a chantry at Ashbourne, fl 1392
Longeford, Nicholas, knight and charter witness, fl 1392
Mountgomery, Nicholas, knight and charter witness, fl 1392
Okore, Philip, knight and charter witness, fl 1392
Places:
Aquitaine, France
Asscheburn, Derbyshire
Bradley, Derbyshire
Knyveton, Derbyshire
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Mircaston, Derbyshire
Plaistow, Crich, Derbyshire
St Oswald's, Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Underwod, Derbyshire