Copy of Letters Patent, 21 June 1616

Component identifier:

Item 59

Content Summary:

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Copy of Letters Patent conveying instructions nominally from the King but actually from his judge. Relates to an action for debt brought by Thomas Elliott against Thomas Thorne

Place: given at Westminster

Parties: King James I: Thomas Elliott and other persons having an interest in the property mentioned in the quarrel between Thomas Thorne, plaintiff, and Thomas Elliott, defendant

Material: paper with ‘grapes’ watermark

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp. 239-242

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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