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LFC Ch XI 31
- Record Id:
- 040-004319214
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003345876
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162202349.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165171573.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- LFC Ch XI 31
- Title:
- Lease by Elizabeth I to Hugh Rabone, of a croft
- Scope & Content:
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After an inquisition into the property of the late Thomas Watwood, held at Wolverhampton on 7 April 1581, who died in debt to the Crown, Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603) leases to Hugh Rabone one of Watwood’s former properties, a croft without pasture called Whitmoors or Le Priors Gyrche, Staffordshire; given at Westminster, 4 July 1582.
Endorsed: in a 17th-century hand, ‘A lease to Raubone from the queen / of divers lands ro-[illegible] of [illegible] l-[illegible]-th in / meayford being called cottons croft / and meadow’.
Affixed with an imperfect Great Seal of Elizabeth I, oval, brown, with the queen enthroned, a sceptre in her right hand, an orb in her left, with the legend, ‘elizabeth dei gracia anglie francie et hibernie regina fidei defensor’. Reverse: Elizabeth on a horse pacing to the left, crowned and with a sceptre in her right hand, her left hand holding the reins, with the legend, ‘elizabeth dei gracia anglie francie et hibernie regina fidei defensor’ (Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887)), I, p. 51).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Medieval and Renaissance Women
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003345876
040-004319214 - Is part of:
- LFC Ch : Lord Frederick Campbell Charters
LFC Ch XI 31 : Lease by Elizabeth I to Hugh Rabone, of a croft - Hierarchy:
- 032-003345876[0023]/040-004319214
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: LFC Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165171573.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1582
- End Date:
- 1582
- Date Range:
- 1582
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 425 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Westminster, England.
Provenance:
Presented by Lord Frederick Campbell (b. 1729, d. 1816), politician, to the British Museum in 1814.
- 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. 51.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)