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- December 1762 - December 1763
Part of The Records of St John's College
Part of The Records of St John's College
Cartulary of St John's Hospital
The cartulary is a volume of 90 parchment folios. It was produced in the middle of the period of the the Hospital's greatest territorial expansion: a majority of the deeds included record transactions between c.1220 and c.1280; also includes a folio of kitchen accounts from 1344.
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Probate copy will of Wacelin de Briddesal [Wasselyn of Birdsall], Yorkshire.
Letters Patent: tenants' petition Barm
Letters Patent of Edward III granting petition of several tenants (named) to retain 54 a at Barm, Quadryng [Quadring], Lincolnshire, free from interference by royal officials, as held of the honour of Richmond.
Endorsed: evidence pertaining to the manor of Wykes for baron in Quadryng'.
Karliolum, 14 July 1335. By fine of 40s. Lincoln.
Letters Patent: Ranulph Pygot et al
Letters Patent, Edward III to Ranulph Pygot et al for land held of the honour of Richmond in Donington and Swineshead, Lincolnshire.
Grant, Ranulph Pygot of Donington to William his son, parcels of land and salt pans in Donington and Quadring, Lincolnshire.
Lease for twenty years, Robert and Johanna Camil [Camell] to Bartholomew, son of John Warde lands in Heyfield and Brantingscroft, Amwell, Hertfordshire. [This equated to 3 acres plus the croft]
Lease, John Camell [Camil] to Richard Warde of a croft near the highway, Ware, Hertfordshire. [for 10 years]
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10 strips of parchment, tied together at top left corner. Each contains a copy of an entry from a Court Roll, in a near-contemporary hand. On the dorse of one is written: 'Coopyes of henry the sext dayes; and on another 'Copyes of Edwarde the iiiith dayes'
Letters patent of Edward IV, confirming at the request of Alianor [Eleanor], Duchess of Somerset, the inquisition held by John Knottesford, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, at Southwark 12 September 1455. The inquisition found that Edmund, Duke of Somerset, had no goods or chattels in Surrey at his death, but that John, Duke of Somerset, was seized of the manors of Wokkyng and Sutton and had granted them to Edmund and Alianor, his wife, and to Henry, Duke of Somerset, son and heir of Edmund, for life.
Westminster, 23 April 1466.
Will of Sir Henry Stafford, third husband of Lady Margaret. A later will, dated October 1471, was proved 4 May 1482. The proved version has gifts including a horse to John, Earl of Wiltshire which are not in the 1470 version.
Stafford, Henry
Grant: Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury
Grant by Lady Margaret under licence of 22 May 1472 by the king [Edward IV] to Thomas [Bourchier], Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, William [Waynflete], Bishop of Winchester, John [Booth], Bishop of Exeter, John [Stafford], Earl of Wiltshire, the King's kinsman, Sir Walter Blound, Lord Mountjoy, Master Owin Lloyd, clerk, John Catesby, serjeant at law, Richard Page, William Hody and Reginald Bray, gentlemen, to hold at her will as to the profits of the lands following, viz Martok, Cory Revell, Kingsbury Regis, Camel Reginae with apputer[enances] in Somerset, hundreds of Bulston, Abdyke and Horethorn with appurt[enances] in [the] same, towns [burgi, burghs] of Langport Estover and Langport Westover with appurt[enances] in the same, manors of Sampford Peverell and Aller Peverell with appurt[enances] in Devon, town of Sampford Peverell and hundred of Alberton also in Devon, with knights' fees, advowsons liberties etc, as of the King in chief; grant to her attorneys John Gilbert, gentleman, Peter WilliamsonJohnson [sic], Thomas Larder, John Jenyn, John Burgeys to deliver seisin to the grantees; witnessed by Sir William Stourton, Lord Stourton, Sir John Dynham, Lord Dynham, Reginald Stourton, William Poulet, Sir John [N]enton, Philip Beaumont, William Carant, Thomas Malet, Robert Stowell, etc.
Endorsed: enrolled dorse of close roll. Jan 19 Henry VII
Declaration of uses by Lady Margaret of a grant dated 22 May 1472 related to the performance of her will, namely to pay the debts of Edmund, earl of Richmond and Sir Henry Stafford her former husbands; the cost of translating the bones of Edmund out of Wales where he is buried to the abbey of Bourne, Lincolnshire and for making a tomb for Edmund and herself, and for a tomb at Plesshey, Essex where Stafford's bones lie; for the foundation of a chantry at Bourne and a chantry at Plesshey, with an income of 12 marks a year for the priests serving them; the reversion of the issues to go to her son Henry earl of Richmond
Bawessey, 2 June 1472
Seal of the Countess.
Endorsed: an olde wyll mayd and revoked by my ladyes grace
Slit through by way of cancellation.
Grant by Sir John Mainwaring, Sir John Bromley and Sir Thomas Manley to Thomas Lord Stanley of the manor of Moldesdale [Flintshire] held by themselves and the collegiate church of St John Chester.
Letter of attorney: Thomas, Lord Stanley
Letter of attorney, Thomas, Lord Stanley to Richard Parker and Thomas Colbronde, to take seisin from Sir John Mainwaring et al. of the manor of Moldesdale, Flintshire.
Stanley, Thomas, 1st Earl of Derby
Marriage settlement: Thomas, Lord Stanley, and Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond
Grant: Thomas, Lord Stanley, to Lady Margaret, of the Castle of Hawarden, Cheshire, and the manors of Bidston, Chesire, Alston, Lancashire, Flintham and Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire; and lands in the Wirral, Prescot and Anlesargh, Lancashire, for term of her life.
Stanley, Thomas, 1st Earl of Derby
Letter of attorney: G Gilpin & T Atkyns
Letters of attorney, Lady Margaret to Gilbert Gilpyn [Gilpin] and Thomas Atkyns, to take seisin of lands conveyed to her by Lord Stanley for her life.