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Acquittance for Edward Greville
Title
Acquittance for Edward Greville.
Created
England, 1594 November 10.
Physical Description
1 l. : parchment ; 365 x 495 mm + seal.
Language
English
Notes
Signed: "Lumley."
Signed: "Ric. Lewkenor."
Docketed in later hands.
Attached seal (worn).
In English.
Provenance
Part of Phillipps MS 40459. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Legal document, in a professional hand, signed by the first Baron Lumley, containing an acquittance for 2500 pounds received from Edward Greville for the manor of Mickleton in Gloucestershire.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
October 17, 2014
References
A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
John Lumley, Baron Lumley, Acquittance for Edward Greville (Takamiya MS 126). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
John Lumley, Baron Lumley, Acquittance for Edward Greville (Takamiya MS 126). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Legal documents - England - 16th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance - England - 16th century.
Seals (artifacts) - England - 16th century.
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