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Legal document relating to land in Calais, 1418


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 846

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Legal document relating to land in Calais, 1418

Date(s): 1418

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: Single sheet

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

No information available at present.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Conveyance, dated 7 May 1418, between Thomas Ashwell and Robert Clyderhowe, both burghers of Calais, of a cottage in Hemp Street, St Mary's parish, Calais. Abuttals given. Includes the seals of Ashwell, and the Mayoralty of Calais on a parchment tag cut from a deed mentioning the following names: Robert Colton, burgher, Jacob de Rypon, probably inhabitants of Calais.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

120 x 310 mm. Contains two seals; the first is monoface, in red wax, oval, 15x10 mm, bearing the device of the muzzled head of a bear; the second is monoface, in red wax.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Messrs Warrens in 1975.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Land tenure | Land economics | Agricultural economics

Personal names
Ashwell | Thomas | fl 1418 | burgher of Calais
Clyderhowe | Robert | fl 1418 | burgher of Calais

Corporate names

Places
Hemp Street | Calais | France | Western Europe | Europe