Exemplification of a recovery, 14 May 1537

Component identifier:

Item 18

Content Summary:

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Exemplification of a recovery. Relates to 'Manor of Casyngham with appurtenances, one messuage, one garden, two hundred acres of land, thirty acres of meadowland, two hundred acres of pasture and 24 shillings of rent with appurtenances in Rownden, Sandehurste, Newynden and Benynden'.

Place: given at Westminster

Parties: 1. Edward Lede, senior, and John Selyard, attorney

2. John More, esquire

3. Nicholas Webster (vouchee)

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp. 113-114

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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