Letter patent, 8 February 1608

Component identifier:

Item 48

Content Summary:

Latin

Letter patent. Letters of Administration of estate relating to the will of Roger Bricket, deceased, recently of Wimborne Minister

Place: given at London

Parties: Richard (Bancroft) Archbishop of Canterbury to all clerics and literate persons

Note: document ‘a’ is the original document and document ‘b’ is a late 19th century transcript of part of the original with an added note.

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp.194-199

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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