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Harley Ch 85 B 17
- Record Id:
- 040-004397144
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002404891
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100173419938.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100181358396.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley Ch 85 B 17
- Title:
- Grant by Lucy de Cokefield to Biddlesden Abbey of all her land in Charwelton
- Scope & Content:
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Quitclaim by Lucy de Cokefield, with the assent of Adam, her son, to Biddlesden Abbey, of all her land in Charwelton (Northamptonshire), which lands she received in the court of the king at Westminster in a case against Ralph de Cheinduit. In return, the abbey will pay her a rent of 3 marks four times a year and acquit her against Ralph.
The witnesses include J., bishop of Norwich (either John of Oxford, r. 1175-1200, or John de Gray, r. 1200-1214).
Endorsed: in an early 13th-century hand, ‘Carta Lucie de Kokefelde de toto t[er]ra sua / de Charwelton’.
Affixed with a seal of Lucy, lozenge, green, with a full-length image of a woman in a headress and long dress, a lily in her right hand, with the legend, ‘sigill[um] lucie de chokefeld’.
Based on the script and the list of witnesses, the manuscript probably dates to c. 1200.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002404891
040-004397144 - Is part of:
- Harley Ch : Harley Charters
Harley Ch 85 B 17 : Grant by Lucy de Cokefield to Biddlesden Abbey of all her land in Charwelton - Hierarchy:
- 032-002404891[0072]/040-004397144
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100181358396.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1195
- End Date:
- 1205
- Date Range:
- c 1200
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 125 x 175 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Biddlesden Abbey, c. 1200.
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
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Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1887-1900), II, p. 381.
Susan M. Johns, Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), p. 210.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)