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Stowe Ch 296
- Record Id:
- 040-001954245
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001953948
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x000397
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173431.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe Ch 296
- Title:
- Grant by Henry III to Flixton Priory of free warren in Flixton
- Scope & Content:
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Grant by Henry III to Flixton Priory of free warren in all of the priory’s demesne lands in Flixton, Suffolk, with a blank space left by the scribe for a decorated initial 'H' ('Henricus’); given at Westminster, 23 May 1271.
Endorsed: in a 15th-century hand, ‘cart[a] de warann[e] / de Fflixton’; in an 18th-century hand, ’23 May 55 Hen[rici]: 3. a[nno]: 1271. / The kings grant of free warren / to the prioress & nuns of Flixton within their manor of Flixton in Suffolk’.
Affixed with an imperfect Great Seal of Henry III, oval, green, with Henry III enthroned, with a loose dress and a cloak, a sceptre in his right hand, his feet each resting on a small lion, a lion on either side of the throne, with the fragmentary legend, ‘…minus hybern…’ Reverse: the king mounted on a horse, with the fragmentary legend, ‘-ex angli…’ (see Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887-1900), I, pp. 17-19).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Medieval and Renaissance Women
Stowe Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001953948
040-001954245 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ch 1-646 : Stowe Charters
Stowe Ch 296 : Grant by Henry III to Flixton Priory of free warren in Flixton - Hierarchy:
- 032-001953948[0295]/040-001954245
- 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_100165173431.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1271
- End Date:
- 1271
- Date Range:
- [23 May 1271]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 175 x 300 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Westminster, England.
Provenance:
Flixton Priory.
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:
- Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1887-1900), I, pp. 17-19.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)