Pages from a Book of the Court of Wards and Liveries, 1522-1523

Component identifier:

Item 17

Content Summary:

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Two leaves torn from a Miscellaneous Book of the Court of Wards and Liveries. Details the extent and value of lands belonging to deceased feudal tenants of the King, which were in his hands because of the minority of the heirs.

Parties: 1. George Agard, died 18 May, 14 Henry VIII (1499), land in Broughton, and Daventry County of Warwick

2. Nicholas Bluett, died 13 Jan 'last', land in Bedford and New Sarum, Wiltshire

3. ? Cutte, died (?), tenement in Southwark, Surrey

4. Robert Coluyle, died 22 Nov, 7 Henry VIII (1491), messuages and land in Wymodham and Thorp Odmere in Leicestershire

5. John Grey, died 15 December, 13 Henry VIII (1497), land in Askerwell, Twistock in Dorset

6. John Bradshawe, died 22 April 13 Henry VIII (1498), land in Wyndeley, Tutbury

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp. 109-111

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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