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Add Ch 70601
- Record Id:
- 040-002207564
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002204958
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000123.0x000049
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165140727.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 70601
- Title:
- Will of Agnes Leigh, widow, of the parish of Cheriton
- Scope & Content:
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Will of Agnes Leigh, widow, of the parish of Cheriton [Kent], leaving her body to St Martin’s Church, Cheriton, to be buried there beside her husband Nicholas Leigh, leaving bequests to the altars there, at Newington [Kent], and West Hythe [Kent], money for lights at Cheriton church, arrangements for memorial masses, money for the poor, the disposition of her land and houses to several benefactors, and the appointment of executors; given 12 February 1515 [1516].
Dorse: Probate certificate by the official of the archbishop of Canterbury; dated 1 July 1518.
Endorsed: in a 16th-century hand, ‘Testa[mentum] Agnetis Legh.’
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002204958
040-002207564 - 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 70601 : Will of Agnes Leigh, widow, of the parish of Cheriton - Hierarchy:
- 032-002204958[0385]/040-002207564
- 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_100165140727.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1516
- End Date:
- 1518
- Date Range:
- 1516-1518
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 300 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Cheriton, England.
Provenance:
Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
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)