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Add Ch 70593
- Record Id:
- 040-002207556
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002204958
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000123.0x000041
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165140720.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 70593
- Title:
- Will of Joanna Chiltern, widow, wife of John Chiltern, of Newington-next-Hythe
- Scope & Content:
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Will of Joanna Chiltern, widow, wife of John Chiltern, of Newington-next-Hythe [Kent], leaving her body to St Mary’s chapel in Newington Church, and leaving bequests to the altar there, to the parish priest for repairs, to several relatives and friends, and appointing her executors. An addendum regarding the lease of her mansion and land to Robert Mowse and his wife Elizabeth and their rent; given 15 March 1480 [1481].
Dorse: Probate certificate by the official of the archbishop of Canterbury; given 17 September 1516.
Endorsed: in an 18th-century hand, ‘Widd[ow] Chilton’s / will’.
Affixed with an imperfect seal of Joanna, lozenge, brown, with a portrait of a woman, framed, with the fragmentary legend, ‘sigillum …nn…’
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002204958
040-002207556 - Is part of:
- Add Ch 68070-70686 : BROCKMAN CHARTERS. Deeds relating to the estates, mainly in co. Kent, of the Brockman, afterwards Drake-Brockman family…
Add Ch 70593 : Will of Joanna Chiltern, widow, wife of John Chiltern, of Newington-next-Hythe - Hierarchy:
- 032-002204958[0377]/040-002207556
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Ch 68070-70686
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165140720.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1481
- End Date:
- 1516
- Date Range:
- 1481-1516
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 175 x 275 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Newington-next-Hythe, England.
Provenance:
Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1516.
Presented to the British Museum in 1931 by the Brockman family via Phyllis Brockman, along with Add Chs 68070-70686 and Add MSS 42586-42710.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)