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Stowe Ch 291
- Record Id:
- 040-001954240
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001953948
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x000392
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173410.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe Ch 291
- Title:
- Foundation charter of Flixton Priory by Margery de Crek
- Scope & Content:
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Grant by Margery de Crek for the souls of her parents Geoffrey de Hanes and Sarra, her ancestors, her former husband Bartholomew de Crek, her successors, and her children, with the consent of her eldest son Robert de Crek, giving her manor house, lands, services, tenants, etc., in Flixton [Suffolk] to found a house of nuns living under the Augustinian Rule.
Margery’s foundation was confirmed by Bishop Simon in 1259 [Stowe Ch 292]. The original grant must therefore date to 1258 or 1259. There was a court case in 1792 over tithes and glebe-land: Gwillim, A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament (1825), 3, pp. 1351-53.
Endorsed: in a faded 16th-century hand, ‘The Abbie of Flyxton / founded by [illegible] / Crek [illegible] / cam’ u/s Flyxton to / noyitis of a grant / of Flyxton Pr[ior]y’; in an 18th-century hand, ‘In the Exchequer / David Potts clerk – compll / and / Edward Durrant & other Defts / This parchment writing was produced and shewn / to Thomas Astle esq[uire] at the time of his examination / in this cause before me / br : Perryne [Richard Peryn (1723-1803), baron of the Exchequer]’.
Witnesses include: Simon de Walton (r. 1258-66), bishop of Norwich.
Affixed with an imperfect seal of Margery de Crek, oval, green, with a heraldic shield, quarterly an orle of twelve roundles, over all a bend, with a fragmentayr legend, ‘sigillum margerie de …’ (see Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887-1900), II, p. 702).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Medieval and Renaissance Women
Stowe Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001953948
040-001954240 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ch 1-646 : Stowe Charters
Stowe Ch 291 : Foundation charter of Flixton Priory by Margery de Crek - Hierarchy:
- 032-001953948[0290]/040-001954240
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ch 1-646
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165173410.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1258
- End Date:
- 1259
- Date Range:
- [1258-1259]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 265 x 240 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1,084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
- Publications:
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Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1887-1900), II, p. 702.
Henry Gwillim, A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament: With Reports of Cases, Argued and Determined in the Courts of Law and Equity, Respecting Tithes, 4 vols (London, 1825), III, pp. 1351-53.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)