MS. Ch. Glouc. 10a

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Language(s): Latin

Confirmation (without recital) by King Henry III of Magna Carta and the Carta de Foresta; the so-called 'Parva Carta'. Dated at Westminster, 28 Jan., 21st of his reign (1237).

[Printed from this copy in Blackstone's Great Charter, p. 68.]

Physical Description

Form: sheet

Support: parchment

Seal: Great Seal of Henry III. (MS. Ch. Glouc. 10a*)

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Gloucester, St Peter's Abbey.

Richard Furney (d. 1753).

Given by Furney; received in 1755.

Record Sources

W. H. Turner and H. O. Coxe, Calendar of charters and rolls preserved in the Bodleian library (Oxford, 1878) [annotated copy, Bodleian Library R.Ref.741], 81 [Google Books]

J. Gilbert Wiblin, Handlist 339e. Seals (including casts and matrices), May 1916 (unpublished handlist, Bodleian Library), p. 54

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Bibliography

Nicholas Vincent, Magna Carta: Origins and Legacy (Oxford, 2015), p. 266 (no. 36(iii))

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-11: Add bibliography; update provenance.

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