MS 4052
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Created: January 2015
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Series 1. Legal documents, 1325-1819
This series comprises 111 fragments of legal documents listed in chronological order. The description of each item includes the following information, where available: the language of the document, type of document, where the document was created, some detail about the content, and the names of people involved. The range of document types includes: deeds of gift, recoveries, leases, marriage settlements, bonds, apprenticeship indentures, quitclaims, financial accounts, letters, and an indenture relating to Drury Lane Theatre. There is also a large group of documents relating particularly to the Elliott family of Salisbury dating from 1561 to 1785...
Facsimile copy from the 'Domesday Book', c1861-1863 (Item 1)
Latin...
Gift, 10 November 1325 (Item 2)
Latin...
Copy of Appointment, 31 June 1355 (Item 3)
Latin...
Grant of Free Warren, 30 April 1369 (Item 4)
Latin...
Grant of Free Warren, 24 February 1392 (Item 5)
Latin...
Gift, 19 February 1404 (Item 6)
Latin...
Financial Accounts, 1408 with references to 1406 and 1407 (Item 7)
French...
Quitclaim, 4 October 1424 (Item 8)
Latin...
Appointment of Attorney, 9 April 1425 (Item 9)
Latin...
Quitclaim, 9 April 1425 (Item 10)
Latin...
Bond, 7 April 1428 (Item 11)
Latin...
Lease, 29 September 1449 (Item 12)
Latin...
Bond, 1455 (Item 13)
German...
Gift, 6 April 1506 (Item 14)
Latin...
Quitclaim, 24 February 1510 (Item 15)
Latin...
Gift by Letters Patent, 4 November 1519 (Item 16)
Latin...
Pages from a Book of the Court of Wards and Liveries, 1522-1523 (Item 17)
Latin...
Exemplification of a recovery, 14 May 1537 (Item 18)
Latin...
Lease by indenture, 20 May 1553 (Item 19)
English...
Lease by indenture, 20 Machr 1556 (Item 20)
English...
Lease by indenture, 4 January 1557 (Item 21)
English...
Marriage agreement, 3 February 1557 (Item 22)
English...
Bond of apprenticeship, 23 September 1561 (Item 23)
English...
Lease by indenture, 10 May 1568 (Item 24)
English...
Bargain sale, 2 November 1570 (Item 25)
English...
Draft final concord, 6 October 1571 (Item 26)
English...
Quitclaim, 26 February 1577 (Item 27)
English...
Gift, 2 November 1578 (Item 28)
Latin...
Bond of apprenticeship, 26 December 1587 (Item 29)
English...
Bond of apprenticeship, 26 Dec 1587 (Item 30)
English...
Gift by deed poll, 29 May 1589 (Item 31)
Latin...
Bond, 14 June 1589 (Item 32)
Latin and English...
Lease by indenture, 1 August 1589 (Item 33)
English...
Bond, 6 March 1589/90 (Item 34)
Latin and English...
Bond, 11 August 1590 (Item 35)
Latin and English...
Bond, 13 August 1590 (Item 36)
Latin and English...
Lease, 31 October 1590 (Item 37)
English...
Bond, 4 November 1591 (Item 38)
Latin and English...
Bond, 29 April 1593 (Item 39)
Latin and English...
Warranty, 3 May 1593 (Item 40)
Latin...
Warranty, 2 May 1593 (Item 41)
Latin...
Indenture of a final concord, 6 October 1594 (Item 42)
Latin...
Indenture of a final concord, 21 May 1596 (Item 43)
Latin...
Exemplification of a recovery, 30 June 1596 (Item 44)
Latin...
Acquittance, 18 November 1598 (Item 45)
English...
Document, 22 Jan 1605 (?) (Item 46)
Note: document is very degraded and difficult to read...
Bond, 13 January 1605/6 (Item 47)
English...
Letter patent, 8 February 1608 (Item 48)
Latin...
Bond, 19 January 1608/9 (Item 49)
Latin and English...
Indenture of lease, 25 March 1609 (Item 50)
Latin and English...
Indenture or Bond of Apprenticeship, 21 December 1609 (Item 51)
English...
Bond, 21 February 1610 (Item 52)
English...
Bond, 15 November 1610 (Item 53)
Latin and English...
Last will and testament, 22 June 1612 (Item 54)
English...
Gift, 2 October 1612 (Item 55)
English...
Articles of Agreement, 13 September 1613 (Item 56)
English...
Bargain and Sale, 20 September 1615 (Item 57)
English...
Bond of Apprenticeship, 13 November 1615 (Item 58)
English...
Copy of Letters Patent, 21 June 1616 (Item 59)
Latin...
Writ of Execution, 13 August 1616 (Item 60)
Latin and English...
Chancery Court Order, 16 October 1616 (Item 61)
English, date in Latin...
Injunction by Letters Patent, 14 February 1617 (Item 62)
Latin, endorsement English...
Appointment of Attorney, 10 December 1617 (Item 63)
English...
Opinion/Report, 8 February 1618 (Item 64)
English...
Declaration of Uses, 28 November 1618 (Item 65)
English...
Release of actions, 19 June 1619 (Item 66)
English...
Duplicate extracts from Letters Patent and Charter, 21 September 1620 (Item 67a-b)
English...
Detailed Account, cJuly 1623 (Item 68)
English...
Acknowledgement of debt, 5 December 1623 (Item 69)
English...
Letter, nd (Item 70)
English...
Transcript of court proceedings, 30 June 1626 (Item 71)
Latin...
Letters Patent, 30 June 1626 (Item 72)
Latin...
Recovery, 13 June 1627 (Item 73)
Latin...
Release of Quitclaim, 1 July 1628 (Item 74)
English...
Injunction, 23 June 1630 (Item 75)
English...
Injunction, 14 May 1635 (Item 76)
English...
Injunction of Court of Wards and Liveries, 18 February 1631 (Item 77)
English...
Copy of Quitclaim, c1628 (Item 78)
English...
Injunctions of the Court of Wards and Liveries, c1634 (Item 79)
English...
Declaration of Account, Michaelmas 1637 - Michaelmas 1638 (Item 80)
Latin...
Declaration of Account, Michaelmas 1639 - Michaelmas 1640 (Item 81)
Latin...
Letters of Administration, 27 May 1642 (Item 82)
Latin...
Bond, 11 January 1643 (Item 83)
Latin and English...
Lease, 20 March 1648 (Item 84)
English...
Bond, 8 May 1651 (Item 85)
English...
Notes relating to estate management, 1652 (Item 86)
English...
Last Will and Testament, 14 April 1653 (Item 87)
English...
Lease, 1 June 1653 (Item 88)
English...
Notification of Final Concord, 23 October 1656 (Item 89)
English...
Indenture of Bargain and Sale, 1 September 1657 (Item 90)
English...
Last Will and Testament, 14 May 1663 (Item 91)
English...
Letter, 17 May 1663 (Item 92)
English...
Letters of Administration, 23 June 1664 (Item 93)
Latin...
Quitclaim, 22 December 1669 (Item 94)
English...
Quitclaim, 20 January 1670 (Item 95)
English...
Bond, 8 August 1672 (Item 96)
Latin and English...
Bond, 2 June 1684 (Item 97)
Latin and English...
Letter of Attorney, 22 January 1704 (Item 98)
English...
Receipt, 27 January 1704 (Item 99)
English...
Assignment of Mortgage, 21 October 1758 (Item 100)
English...
Assignment of Mortgage, 14 April 1764 (Item 101)
English...
Appointment of Deputy Lieutenant, 20 April 1761 (Item 101a)
English...
Receipt, 12 May 1766 (Item 102)
English...
Exemplification of a recovery., 28 November 1780 (Item 102a)
English...
Letter, 17 February 1785 (Item 103)
English...
Letter, 20 August 1785 (Item 104)
English...
Letter, 28 November 1787 (Item 105)
English...
Grant, 18 June 1793 (Item 106)
English...
Grant of Administration, 2 June 1802 (Item 107)
English...
Receipt, 26 March 1803 (Item 108)
English...
Notice, Jan 1816 (Item 109)
English...
Receipt, 27 March 1819 (Item 110)
English...
Label, mid 19th century (?) (Item 111)
English...
Series 2. Musico-liturgical documents, c10th century - 16th century
This series comprises 16 muscio-liturgical fragments. Two are thought to be of particular significance. The first, item 16, is the oldest in the collection, having been dated by Professor Michelle Brown as being from the 10th century. The second, item 1, is believed to be a leaf from a Royal English Choirbook from Henry VI's Chapel Royal, other leaves of which are held in the collections of the Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, and Magdalen College, Oxford. There has been much interest and discussion amongst scholars regarding the date and provenance of this item...
Fragment of French mensural manuscript, late 14th century (Item 1)
Thought to be from a Choirbook used in the Chapel Royal of Henry VI...
Fragment from a mensural manuscript, 16th century (Item 2)
Possibly English...
Bifolio from a fully notated Breviary, late 11th - early12th century (Item 3)
Possibly English...
Fragmentary bifolio from a notated Breviary, 13th century (Item 4)
From northern France or England...
Bifolio from an Antiphonal, 13th century (Item 5)
Probably of Sarum use...
Single sheet from an Antiphonal, 13th century (Item 6)
Probably of Sarum Use...
Sheet from a notated Breviary, 13th century (Item 7)
Possibily of Sarum use...
Two disparate sheets from the same Gradual or Missal, 13th-14th century (Item 8-9)
Probably of Sarum use...
Two separate sheets from the one gathering of the same notated Breviary, 13th-14th century (Item 10-11)
Probably of Sarum use...
Sheet from a notated Breviary, 14th century (Item 12)
Unknown provenance...
Sheet from a Service Book, late 14th-15th century (Item 13)
German or Eastern provenance...
Fragmentary bifolio from a Missal, 15th century (Item 14)
Unknown provenance...
Bifolium from centre gathering of a Breviary, late 15th century (Item 15)
Unknown provenance...
Fragment from a Missal, 10th century (Item 16)
Unknown provenance...
Series 3. Miscellaneous documents, c1200-early 16th century
This series comprises 108 groups of fragments, the majority of which have been used as pastedowns in later books, as evidenced by glue marks. The types of documents include religious texts, writings on Canon Law, commentary on the Gospels, legal texts and literary texts...
Religious text, 13th century (Item 1-2)
Origin: Probably English with Italian influence...
Canon Law, first quarter of the 13th century, possibly as early as 1200 (Item 3)
Date: Script is above top line, so pre 1220 in Italy...
Canon Law, first quarter of the 13th century, possibly as early as 1200 (Item 4)
Content: Incipit - ‘Incipiunt decretales domini Innocenti papae iii…’...
Religious text, 15th century (Item 5)
Origin: English...
Canon Law, early 13th century (Item 6)
Origin: Italian – Bologna(?)...
Religious commentary, 13th century (Item 7)
Origin: English...
Literary text, Early 12th century, c1100 (Item 8)
Origin: English (see notes below re script)...
Religious commentary, early 14th century, c1400 (Item 9)
Origin: Italian...
Canon Law, early 14th century (Item 10-11)
Content/script: Canon law with wrap round commentary and later annotations. Possibly Avignon as lacks Bolognese compression of script and the glossularis script for commentary looks French...
Religious commentary, c1300 (Item 12)
Origin: Italian...
Religious text, c1400 (Item 13)
Origin: Germany or Netherlands [?]...
Religious commentary, late 13th century (Item 14)
Origin: Italian - Bologna...
Religious text, 15th century (Item 15)
Content: Probably a fragment from a Service Book. Includes musical notation at bottom of one page. One side of the leaf is manuscript, Italian centre with Germanic influence (c15th century). The other and possibly more important side was printed in Northern Italy - could be Venice or Mantua (final quarter of the 15th century). Passion of Christ from Luke...
Treatise on medicine/health, 12th or 13th century (Item 16)
Origin: Italian...
Legal text, 1439 (Item 17)
Content: Edition of Epistles. Book of letters by Doctors of Law from the University of Heidelberg...
Religious commentary, early 13th century (Item 18-19)
Origin: English...
Religious text, second half 12th century (Item 20)
Origin: Northern France (uncrossed Tironians)...
Religious text, 1160-1170 (Item 21)
Origin: English...
Religious commentary, c1300 (Item 22)
Origin: French (?)...
Religious text, first quarter 13th century (Item 23)
Content: From the Pauline Epistles. Probably from an early example of a pocket Bible...
Religious text, c1500 (Item 24)
Origin: French with Italian influence...
Literary text, 13th century (Item 25)
Origin: French...
Religious text, second half 13th century (Item 26)
Origin: French...
Literary text, late 14th century (Item 27)
Origin: French - Toulouse/Avignon(?)...
Legal text, c1300 (Item 28)
Content: Listing - relates to penalties in Civil Law rather than Canon Law...
Legal text, Early 14th century (Item 29)
Content: English Statutes of the Realm, relating to Assizes...
Legal text, c1300 (Item 30)
Origin: Italian...
Religious commentary, late 15th / early 16th century (Item 31)
Origin: English – probably London...
Literary text, early 14th century (Item 32)
Origin: English...
Religious text, early 13th century (Item 33)
Origin: English...
Religious text, second half 13th century (Item 34)
Origin: Northern France/Netherlands...
Religious text, second half 13th century (Item 35)
Origin: Possibly Netherlands or perhaps Iberia as script widely spaced and has areference to ‘Tecla’...
Religious text, early 16th century (Item 36)
Content: Sacramentary. Mostly in Latin, but the responses are in English eg 'With this ring I thee wed...'...
Payment register, c1500 (Item 37)
Origin: French...
Religious commentary, nd (Item 38)
Content: Annotated flyleaf fragment. Incipit speculum missae (hugonis cardinalis) a) de armis sacerdotalibus b) innocentii III de sacrosancto altaris officio liber=begins to be a mirror of the Mass (hugonis cardinalis) a) concerning the arms of priests b) the duty of the altar of the sacred and holy book of the Innocent III...
Text, second half 14th century (Item 39-40)
Origin: English...
Canon Law, c1300 (Item 41)
Origin: Northern European copy of a Bologna manuscript...
Religious commentary, late 12th century (Item 42)
Content: Commentaries of the nature of the Trinity - Book ‘I’...
Canon Law, c1300 (Item 43)
Origin: Italian – Bologna...
Canon Law, 13th century (Item 44)
Content: Glossed 'Liber Causae' - commentary on Canon Law...
Religious commentary, 14th - 15th century (Item 45)
Origin: English...
Religious commentary, 15th century (Item 46-47)
Origin: German...
Canon Law, late 15th century (Item 48)
Origin: English...
Canon Law, c1300 (Item 49-56)
Origin: Italian...
Canon Law, 13th century (Item 57)
Origin: English...
Religious tables, 14th -15th century (Item 58)
Origin: English...
Religious commentary, 13th century (Item 59)
Origin: French...
Text, early 14th century (Item 60)
Origin: English...
Legal text, second half 13th century (Item 61)
Origin: English...
Civil law text, second half 13th century (Item 62)
Origin: English...
Text, first half 14th century (Item 63)
Origin: English...
Canon Law, c1300 (Item 64-65)
Origin: Italian – Bologna...
Religious text, c1200 (Item 66-67)
Origin: Northern France or, more likely, Germany...
Religious text, late 13th century (Item 68-69)
Origin: Northern France or Netherlands...
Religious text, second half 14th century (Item 70)
Origin: English...
Religious text, 15th century (Item 71)
Origin: English, or perhaps German...
Legal text, second quarter 14th century (Item 72-73)
Origin: English...
Literary text, early 14th century (Item 74)
Origin: English...
Unidentified notes, first half of the 13th century (Item 75)
Origin: English/Northern France (Oxford or Paris?)...
Canon Law, 13th century (Item 76-79)
Origin: Italian - Bologna...
Canon Law, 13 century (Item 80)
Origin: Italian - Bologna...
Religious text, 14th century (Item 81-82)
Origin: English, possibly York...
Religious text, second half 13th century (Item 83)
Origin: French...
Religious text, 14th century (Item 84)
Origin: English...
Religious text, mid-13th century (Item 85-86)
Origin: French...
Legal text, c1300 (Item 87)
Origin: English...
Religious commentary, 15th century (Item 88)
Origin: German...
Canon Law, c1300 (Item 89-90)
Origin: Italian - Bologna...
Religious commentary, 13th century (Item 91-95)
Origin: English...
Legal commentary, second half 14th century (Item 96-99)
Origin: English...
Religious text, c1400 (Item 100-105)
Origin: English...
Religious text, 14--? (Item 106-107)
Origin: Italian...
Religious text, 15th century (Item 108)
Origin: English...
