Articles of Agreement, 13 September 1613

Component identifier:

Item 56

Content Summary:

English

Articles of Agreement on marriage. Relates to the marriage of James Abbot and Margaret Elliott. The agreement sets out terms relating to payments of monies and transfer of property.

Parties: Thomas Elliott of the cittie of New Sarum, gent., in the countie of Wilts; Edmund Abbott of Bratton in the Countie of Somerset, yeoman; James Abbott of New Sarum, ‘lynnen draper’, and Margaret, his wife

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp. 224-230

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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