MS. Ch. Norfolk 727

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Language(s): Latin

Letter from John Paston the elder to the king praying him to grant his letters patent for the founding in the great mansion of Caster in Flegg in Norfolk a college of 7 priests and 7 poor men to pray for the soul of sir John Fastolf, kt. .

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Form: sheet
Support: parchment

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Archive of Paston family

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], 251 [Google Books]

Bibliography

    James Gairdner, The Paston letters, 1422-1509 (1904), no. 569.1
    N. Davis et al., Paston Letters and Papers, no. 70a

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-10: First online publication

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