Appointment of Attorney, 9 April 1425

Component identifier:

Item 9

Content Summary:

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Appointment of Attorney (William Short) to render seisin into the hands of the Venerable Father John, Bishop of Sarum. Relates to six cottages in ‘Newstret’, and a tenement of St Nicholas’s Hospital of Sarum.

Place: given at Kenton in the County of Devon

Parties: Thomas Upton, clerk, son and heir of John Upton, recently citizen of the city of New Sarum: William Short

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp.90-92

Immediate source of acquisition:

The documents in this collection were presented to the National Library of Australia by Sir Rex Nan Kivell in 1969. He referred to it as ‘The Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection’. The documents were collected by him as specimens of early calligraphy and/or examples of early documentation. He acquired them over a number of years from varied sources which were not recorded. However, it seems likely that the group of legal documents in Series 1 relating to the Elliott family of Salisbury would have a single provenance. Nan Kivell had a country house in Devizes, Wiltshire, which is only a short distance from Salisbury.

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