Catalogue description Lay Cartulary of the family of Beauchamp of Somerton or of Hatch, Somerset. A volume in...

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Details of E 315/58
Reference: E 315/58
Description:

Lay Cartulary of the family of Beauchamp of Somerton or of Hatch, Somerset. A volume in its original board and white leather binding, and straps. It is decorated with red and blue and has illuminated capitals. It has i a Table of Contents in Norman French; ii a Cartulary, the latest entry in which is dated 15 Edward III, to which has been added a list of fealties done at Hatch Beauchamp, 37 Edward III, with other additions from 25 to 38 Edward III. The last folio has the following entry written by Sir John Seymour, knight: "This feodary is John Seymour's, knight, of Savernak, in the county of Wilts and for the more evidence he wrote this with his own hand the last day of January, the 5th year of King Henry the VIIIth". Written about the middle of the fourteenth century. 122 folios

Note: Calendar and Description in the Eighth Report of the Deputy Keeper (1847), Appendix II, pp. 147-151. Translation in Somerset Record Society, XXXV (1920). Vol.
Date: 1330-1370
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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