Transcript of court proceedings, 30 June 1626

Component identifier:

Item 71

Content Summary:

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Transcript of court proceedings. Appears to relate to a fraudulent document.

Place: Because of the heading Yeovell Burgus, it is possible these proceedings took place in the Borough Court of Yeovil, otherwise it may be part of an action in the Court of Common Pleas

Parties: Thomas Thorne, John and Dorothy (Cade?), Joseph Sterr

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp. 275-78

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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