Gift by Letters Patent, 4 November 1519

Component identifier:

Item 16

Content Summary:

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Gift by Letters Patent. Relates to property in Halton iuxta Streeton.

Place: given at Halton

Parties: John Leighton, son and heir of Thomas Leighton, knight; Richard Hamondes of Hatton and Elizabeth, his wife

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp. 107-108

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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