Gift by deed poll, 29 May 1589

Component identifier:

Item 31

Content Summary:

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Gift by deed poll. Relates to property in Chipperstreete in the parish of St Edmund. Names mentioned in relation to these properties: Thomas Southe, John Hobbes, Robert Hawlesses, John Blathat, John Eyre, and Edmund Williams.

Parties: Margaret Gomeldon, daughter of William Gomeldon, of Porton in the County of Wiltshire, to John Eyre of the city of New Sarum, gentleman

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp. 156-158

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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