MS. Ch. Essex 132b

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Contents

Language(s): Latin

Robert Gernun , son of the late William Gernun of Tornham , grants to the abbey of St. John, Colchester, in frankalmoigne, the whole of a tenement which his brother Thomas held of him in the village of Wicham paying annually 2s. 4d. (c. 1260-70.)

Physical Description

Form: sheet

Support: parchment

Seal:(detached, kept separately) Seal, human head. (MS. Ch. Essex 132b*)

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Archive of Abbey of St John, Colchester

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], 64 [Google Books]

J. Gilbert Wiblin, Handlist 339e. Seals (including casts and matrices), May 1916 (unpublished handlist, Bodleian Library), p. 42

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