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- Housed in a modern wooden frame (406 x 457 mm); charter visible on one side only, with dealer's prospectus on back. The seal of Nicholas Basset is still attached; made of green wax (ca. 5 cm diameter) in near fine condition, pendant on blue-green cords; bearing the device of a knight in armor galloping on horseback with the legend “SIGILL NICHOLLI BASSAT”; covered by a little textile seal bag threaded over the cords., First initial “O” is slightly enlarged and embellished., Fourteenth-century English grant by Nicholas Basset, Lord of Tretone, to the monks of the Cistercian abbey of Garendon, of a place in “Brueria Treton” to build a monastery and to serve God and St. Mary there and to live according to the Rule of St. Benedict, together with a mill and various named lands, for the salvation of his soul and those of his parents and of all the faithful people, with the names of 12 witnesses. Includes medieval endorsements: “Nichs. Basset de fundacione.”, English cursive documentary script, and Produced at Bruern Abbey within Oxfordshire, England around 1300. This foundation charter was issued after the actual foundation of the abbey. The Cistercian Abbey of Bruern (Cottineau 1:517) was founded by Nicholas Basset on 10 July 1147, originally as a cell of Garendon Abbey (Cottineau 1:1254) in Leicestershire. By the end of the thirteenth century circumstances at the abbey -- presumably financial -- required the creation of another charter. The present charter would have been viewed as a posthumous grant by the late founder. The wording of the text reads like a twelfth-century document but the script is late thirteenth or early fourteenth. The monks have accorded themselves more generous land provisions than the founder had actually done. The seal appears authentic and either was unthreaded and reattached from a twelfth-century original or the monks still had the matrix. Even if it was known to be 150 years too recent to be genuine, it would have been acknowledged as the actual foundation charter. Bruern Abbey was suppressed in 1536. Purchased by Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio, on May 2003.
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- Folded at bottom with a few small worm holes throughout. Attached is a seal tag that was cut from an earlier document of which some of the words are still visible. Attached to the tag is a narrow band formerly used to hold an affiliated claim (see MS 157)., Quitclaim by Hugh, son of Simon of Rodes, to Walter son of Walter de Haweswrd (Haukesw[o]rd), relinquishing all rights to the four acres in the field of Rodes [in Menston] that Robert Ruffus had by grant of Hugh’s brother Thomas. Witnessed by Simon Ward miles (c. 1291-1326; Moor 5), Mathew Burne, Hugh de Berwicke, Walter de Midelton, Simon son of Thomas de Giselay, Thomas (Francisus?), and William son of Matilda de Haukesw[o]rd. Undated, no warranty clause., 1 column of 9 lines ruled in plummet in English cursive documentary script., and Written in England, the document concerns lands in Rodes, i.e., Rhodes Green in Menston, NW of Leeds, Yorks WR, near Hawksworth and Guiseley. Dated to the late thirteenth century, or not much later, on paleographic grounds, and on the identification of one of the witnesses, Simon Ward miles (known 1291-1326; Moor 84:155-6). Description from Regan/Lynch.
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- [1275 TO 1325]
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- Leaf includes plica; folded approximately three times., Enlarged first initial "S" in first line., A chirograph dated 1 October, 1427, for the transfer of land in Barwell (near Hinkley, Leicestershire), by Sir William Babington (Babyngton) to John Howes and his wife Matilda. Bottom half folded with four seal tags attached, the last appears to be from a fragment of an early Middle English text, which must predate 1427, and with the words “men to persue your laws with other w…” still visible. A red wax seal is attached to the last tag., 1 column of 15 lines, ruled in dry point in early Middle English text documentary script. The text fading at folds., and England, the date 1 October 1427 appears at the end of the text. Sir William Babington (c.1370–1454), justice, Order of the Bath, was born into an ancient Northumberland family and pursued a highly successful legal career that allowed him to greatly extend his family’s landholdings, which included estates in Leicestershire on the border of Nottinghamshire (Payling). Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library, from the Mackus Company, Springfield, Illinois (D6309).
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- 1427-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries