Western Michigan University, WMU MS 132

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6412

Shelfmark:

WMU MS 132

Title:

Conveyance of land in Great Dunmow to Richard Phillips, 1659

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

1659

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

eng

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 leaves : parchment, 340 x 560 mm. with addendum of 135 x 260 mm.

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. document.
Indenture document (conveyance) of Penelope Warde of Great Dunmow, Essex, widow to Richard Phillips of the same, who was a wheelewright, for ₤10 15s + ₤8 to be paid to her at 10s each quarter day with grants of parcels of land in Great Dunmow towards Chelmsford. Robert Remington also mentioned. There is text on an attached sheet beginning with: "In the aforesaid summe..." It is a 13-line...
Parchment, single sheet, indented along top with remnants of a red wax seal appended to the parchment tag; an additional parchment sheet (135 x 260 mm) is attached by the tag behind the plica. 340 x 560 mm. Written in a late English secretary hand with exagerated loops on ascenders. 4-line initial "T" opens the text. Document folded six times.
Written in England, county of Essex and dated 1 December 1659 in document. Signed, "The mark of Penelope Warde" beside the slits for the parchment tag on the plica. A six-line inscription on dorse in a contemporary hand similar to the main text, "Sealed and...in the presence of..." three signatures follow (illegible except for two "Johns"). Gift of the Department of History, Western Michigan...

Keyword:

Deeds

documentary scripts

England--Great Dunmow

Manuscripts, English

Conveyancing

England--Essex

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4dvb3u/01WMU_ALMA21346750960002436

IIIF Manifest:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~1222587~160320/manifest

Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University