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Topham Ch 19
- Record Id:
- 040-004299757
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004299756
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156872671.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165174807.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Topham Ch 19
- Title:
- Receipt of Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate, London, for the lease of the rectory of Hartington
- Scope & Content:
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Receipt by Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Abbey of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate, London, confirming she and the convent had received from George [Talbot] (1468-1538), earl of Shropshire [Shrewsbury], £26 30s 4d, for the lease of the rectory of Hartington, Derbyshire, and the house there; given 20 October 1526.
Endorsed: in a late 17th-century hand, ‘An acquittance for the rent / of Herrington’; in a 16th-century hand, ‘Sale of the Abbey of / Minors [illegible] / Aldgate Lon[don] / Derb.’
Affixed with an imperfect seal of Dorothy Comberford, a lozenge, red, showing the Coronation of the Virgin Mary, with the abbess kneeling in prayer on the left, with a fragmentary legend, ‘…bbatiss… de gr…ie…’. (see Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887), I, p. 364).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Medieval and Renaissance Women
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004299756
040-004299757 - Is part of:
- Topham Ch : Topham Charters
Topham Ch 19 : Receipt of Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate, London, for the lease of the rectory of Hartington - Hierarchy:
- 032-004299756[0001]/040-004299757
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Topham Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165174807.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1526
- End Date:
- 1526
- Date Range:
- 1526
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 70 x 290 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
London, England.
Provenance:
Purchased by the British Museum, together with Add Chs 5920-5922 and Topham Chs 1-56, at the sale of the library of John Topham (b. 1746, d. 1803), antiquary, Sotheby's, 12 February 1804.
- 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. 364.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)