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Indenture between William Curtys and Geoffrey Walkeden and Thomas Walkeden
Title
Indenture between William Curtys and Geoffrey Walkeden and Thomas Walkeden.
Production
London, England, 1565 November 10.
Physical Description
1 item : parchment ; 470 x 630 mm
Language
English
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Script: secretary.
Docketed on verso in a contemporary hand; note on verso in nineteenth-century hand.
Decoration: enlarged and calligraphic initial letter.
With: red wax seal bearing the merchant's mark of William Curtys appended on parchment tag.
In English.
Provenance
Purchased from Samuel Gedge, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2018.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript document, on parchment, in a scribal hand, of a conveyance by William Curtys, a London pewterer, to Geoffrey Walkeden, a London skinner, and his son and heir Tomas Walkeden. Curtys conveys a freehold grove of trees in Edmonton and two acres of copyhold land held of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's and called Bowestones. Document written and witnessed by Thomas Pierson, scrivener of St. Pancras, London.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
August 30, 2018
References
Indenture between William Curtys and Geoffrey Walkeden and Thomas Walkeden. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Indenture between William Curtys and Geoffrey Walkeden and Thomas Walkeden. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Indentures - Great Britain - 16th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - Great Britain - 16th century.
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