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Add Ch 26317
- Record Id:
- 040-002157558
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002157458
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000997.0x00017a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165140598.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 26317
- Title:
- Will of Joanna Lane, widow of Nicholas Lane of Snape
- Scope & Content:
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Will of Joanna Lane, widow of Nicholas Lane of Snape, Suffolk. She asks to be buried in the churchyard of Snape Church, and makes bequests to her daughters, her goddaughter, and her goddaughter’s family, and appoints executors.
Dated 20 November 1500.
Dorse: Probate certificate by Roger Church and Thomas, prior of Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, as the archbishopric lies vacant; dated 9 January 1500 [1501].
Affixed with two seals. The first, a very fragmentary seal of Roger Church, red, with a heraldic shield with the arms of the Deanery of Canterbury. The second, fragmentary, red, a cross with the monogram ‘IHS’ (see Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887-1900), I, p. 189).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002157458
040-002157558 - Is part of:
- Add Ch 26218-26404 : GRANTS of land, court-rolls of manors, wills and other documents relating to estates of the Wentworths, Earls of Strafford…
Add Ch 26317 : Will of Joanna Lane, widow of Nicholas Lane of Snape - Hierarchy:
- 032-002157458[0100]/040-002157558
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Ch 26218-26404
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165140598.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1501
- Date Range:
- 1500-1501
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 320 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1501.
Purchased by the British Museum from J. Waller, 13 December 1879, along with Add Chs 26218-26404.
- 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, p. 189.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)