Lease, 31 October 1590

Component identifier:

Item 37

Content Summary:

English

Assignment of lease. For two shops in New Sarum. Names mentioned in lease: Elizabeth Merivall, widdowe of William Merivall, Thomas Tovie, John Barnes and William Ewene. Property was demised by indenture to William Merivale [sic] by Henry Asheley of Upwimbourn St Giles, Dorset, knight.

Parties: Thomas Merivall of the city of Newe Sarum in the County of Wiltshire, draper, and Alice Merivall, sister of the said Thomas Merivall; to John Barnes of the city of New Sarum aforesaid, 'inholder'

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp. 169-172

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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