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Stowe Ch 619
- Record Id:
- 040-001954579
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001953948
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000587.0x0000f8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173547.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe Ch 619
- Title:
- Grant of confraternity by Sir Thomas Norton, master of the Hospital of Burton of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, to Elizabeth Vachell
- Scope & Content:
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A grant of confraternity by Sir Thomas Norton (fl. 1505-1526), knight and master of the Hospital of Burton Lazars of the Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, to Elizabeth Vachell; 1512. The text lists the spiritual benefits of membership. The document was mass produced, with blank spaces left for the recipient’s name.
Endorsed: in an early 16th century hand, ‘Burton Lazars.’; in a late 16th century hand, ‘Norton, miles, magister hospitalis de Burton Lazars, in Anglia'; in an 18th-century hand, ‘Co: Leciester / 3. H:8./A[nn]o 1512 / Burton Lazars Hospital. Tho[mas] Norton miles master / Indulgence for Eliza[beth] Wachell.’
Affixed with the imperfect seal of the Hospital of Burton Lazars, a lozenge, showing St Lazarus, full-length, with a mitre in his right hand.
Other grants of confraternity by Thomas Norton now survive as Add Ch 37362 and Stowe Ch 620.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Medieval and Renaissance Women
Stowe Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001953948
040-001954579 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ch 1-646 : Stowe Charters
Stowe Ch 619 : Grant of confraternity by Sir Thomas Norton, master of the Hospital of Burton of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, to Elizabeth Vachell - Hierarchy:
- 032-001953948[0614]/040-001954579
- 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_100165173547.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1512
- End Date:
- 1512
- Date Range:
- 1512
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 100 x 230 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Burton Lazars, England.
Provenance:
Hospital of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, Burton Lazars, England.
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 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)