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Cotton Ch IV 13/1
- Record Id:
- 040-004536226
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003202582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100181567409.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Ch IV 13/1
- Title:
- Revocation by John Giffard of Boscobel of an indenture granting lands to Frances, Dorothy and Philippa Giffard, his daughters
- Scope & Content:
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Revocation by John Giffard of Boscobel (Shropshire), esquire, of an indenture granting to Frances, Dorothy and Philippa Giffard, his daughters, the site of the former White Ladies Priory of St Leonard, Brewood (Shropshire), and lands in Stafford, a house in Boscobel, and the farm of Necholls, Tonge and Donnington, for his own use during his life and thereafter to pass to each daughter and her heirs successively.
Witnesses: Jephson Jewell of the Middle Temple, Thomas Cotton of Gidding Abbas, Huntingdonshire, and Edward Barriffe.
Given 10 June 1632.
John Giffard's signature.
Endorsed: 'Subscribed sealed and delivered in the presence of / Jephson Jewell / Thomas Cotton / Edward Bariff' (17th century). Their signatures.
Affixed with a seal of John Giffard, red, oval, from a signet ring, a heraldic shield, quarterly, three stirrups with their leathers (1, 4), the arms of Giffard, and castles and lions rampant, quarterly (2, 3), crests, each on a wreath, left, a tiger's head, right a lion atop a castle, carved border.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003202582
040-004536226 - Is part of:
- Cotton Ch : Cotton Charters
Cotton Ch IV 13/1 : Revocation by John Giffard of Boscobel of an indenture granting lands to Frances, Dorothy and Philippa Giffard, his daughters - Hierarchy:
- 032-003202582[0176]/040-004536226
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1632
- End Date:
- 1632
- Date Range:
- 1632
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 410 x 540 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Secretary.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet.
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7.
Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Publications:
- Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1887-1900), III, p. 13.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cotton, John, 3rd Baronet, 1621-1702
Cotton, Thomas, 2nd Baronet, 1594-1662 - Places:
- England