MS. Ch. Sussex 16b

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Language(s): Latin

Tattered fragment of Letters patent dated 8 M[ay], 41 Ed. III., being a grant of a licence of mortmain to the abbot and convent of Beggeham, to enable them to buy 4 acres of land and 3 acres of meadow in Lamburhurst.

Physical Description

Form: sheet

Support: parchment

Seal:(detached, kept separately) With fragment of the Great Seal, Edw. III (5th - Brétigny seal). (MS. Ch. Sussex 16b*)

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Archive of Beigham Abbey

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], 57 [Google Books]

J. Gilbert Wiblin, Handlist 339e. Seals (including casts and matrices), May 1916 (unpublished handlist, Bodleian Library), p. 183

Availability

The seal(s) from this charter have been detached and are now stored separately. To request consultation please email specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-10: First online publication