Catalogue description DEEDS AND PAPERS

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Details of DR10/15
Reference: DR10/15
Title: DEEDS AND PAPERS
Description:

Gift from Brother Osbert [de Westwelle] Abbot of Stanleg' and the Convent of the same place to Sir Gilbert de Segrave and Amabel his wife, of the benefit of the prayers of the monks of that house and of the whole Order during and after their lives; also one monk for ever to celebrate for the souls of Stephen his father and Roys his mother and Amabel his wife, their ancestors and successors. Moreover they acknowledge the gift from the said Gilbert of half a mark paid to the pittancer annually on the anniversary of his mother out of the rent of 100 shillings from Byricot' which he gave to them in frankalmoign.

 

Tag, seal missing.

 

Endorsed: i) De quodam monacho habendo divina celebrante in abbatia de Stanlog'. (contemp)

 

ii) Warr'

 

iii) Roisia Spencer, Amabilia Chawcombe [AG]

Date: 1241-58
Held by: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, not available at The National Archives
Language: Latin
Physical condition: Parchment, 7 x 3½ ins.

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