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John Elys deed : manuscript, 1358

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p33p8v
Title: John Elys deed : manuscript, 1358
Date: 1358
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Deeds, Indentures, Legal documents, Manuscripts, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Deed of a sale of a life estate by John Elys and his son John to John de Beeleye and his wife Margery, all of Toneworth, Warwickshire. Dated the first Wednesday after the feast of Saint Hillary in the thirty-first regnal year of Edward III (January 1358), in Toneworth. The document states that Robert de Crowenhale, Edward de Middelmor, John Waryn, Richard Russel, John Page, and others were present as witnesses. It is written in 25 long lines, in a notarial hand, and has a parchment tag at the bottom. Words have been erased in two places (in one case with a correction written in the space) and nearly 4 lines have been canceled by crossing out in ink. The document has the undulating upper edge of an indenture and was marked before cutting.
Extent: 1 item (1 leaf) : parchment ; 170 x 245 mm
Language: Latin
Note: Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., In Latin.
Relation: The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p33p8v, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs110.html
Subject: Elys, John, Beeleye, John de, Beeleye, Margery de, Real property -- England -- Warwickshire, Real property
Geographic Subject: Warwickshire (England) -- History, England -- Warwickshire
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 110
Provenance: Sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (London), cat. 880 (1967), no. 42, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011., Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9949945603503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p33p8v/manifest

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