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Add Ch 19858
- Record Id:
- 040-002144644
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002144569
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000345.0x000383
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100181356168.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 19858
- Title:
- Letter of Anne of Woodstock, countess of Stafford, appointing John Harper as her steward
- Scope & Content:
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Letter of Anne of Woodstock (b. c. 1382, d. 1438), countess of Stafford, Buckingham, Hereford and Northampton, and lady of Brecknock, appointing John Harper (b. 1395, d. 1464) as her steward of Staffordshire; given at London, 15 July 1428.
Affixed with a fragmentary seal, red, a quatrefoil lozenge coat of arms: per pale, dex. field diapered with sprigs of foliage, a chevrong, Stafford; sin., quarterly; 1. France (Ancient); 2. Unknown; 3. England; 4. a bend cotised between six lioncels rampant, Bohun. The shield upheld by a swan rising with open wings above it. Between the lobes on the dexter side, a Stafford knot, the other corresponding badges broken away; cabled borders; with a fragmentary legend, '......ffordie…..ef z......a:' (see Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1894), III, p. 536).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002144569
036-002144599
040-002144644 - Is part of:
- Add Ch 19788-22613 : A COLLECTION of 2,826 charters relating to monastic and other lands in England, and ranging from the viith to the…
Add Ch 19815-19890 : CHARTERS and documents distinguished for age, beauty of seal or historical interest; arranged chronologically from 1182 to…
Add Ch 19858 : Letter of Anne of Woodstock, countess of Stafford, appointing John Harper as her steward - Hierarchy:
- 032-002144569[0018]/036-002144599[0043]/040-002144644
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Ch 19788-22613
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100181356168.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1428
- End Date:
- 1428
- Date Range:
- 1428
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 120 x 350 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
London, England.
Provenance:
John Harper (b. 1395, d. 1464): owned in 1428.
Purchased by the British Museum from G. R. Attenborough, 12 July 1873, together with Add Chs 19788-22613, for £1100.
- 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), III, p. 536.
Carole Rawcliffe, The Staffords, Earls of Stafford and Dukes of Buckingham, 1394-1521 (Cambridge, 1978), p. 216.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)