Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1476.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Love, Nicholas.

Contributor:

Hungerford and Botreaux, Margaret, Lady, -1478, addressee.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English, Middle (1100-1500)

Subjects (All):

Wiltshire (England)--History.

Wiltshire (England).

Genre:

legal documents

Manuscripts, English (Middle)

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold in a collection of charters at auction at Sotheby's, 7 July 2009 (lot 10).

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : parchment ; 103 x 201 mm

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 11 Folder 29

Place of Publication:

1476.

Language Note:

In Middle English.

Summary:

An indenture with an undulating upper edge, in which Nicholas Love gives witness that he has turned over all proceeds from the properties in Cornwall and Devonshire belonging to Margaret, Lady Hungerford and Botreaux (daughter of William de Botreaux, Lord Botreaux, and widow of Robert, Lord Hungerford). Love is identified as a receiver, an official collector of rents or other income, for Lady Margaret. Written in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, and dated 16 May 1476 (regnal year 16 of Edward IV).

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

OCLC:

435462933

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page