Norfolk, Charter
Type: Charter
Date: 1423
Setting: City
Produced By/For: [Norfolk]
Contents: Tenements and lands
Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.1
Location: Drawer 5A/08 (Acc. 1992-045, Item #5)
Description
From the Manuscript Paleography Collection
Charter, England, Norfolk
- dated at 'Brakene', 24 June, 1 Henry VI (1423)
- 95 x 300mm, on vellum, in Latin, with proper names in Middle English
- charter of Robert Edward, parson of the church at Sweynesthorp; Thomas Glyse, chaplain; Edward Man, cordwainer of the City of Norwich; and John de Dunstone, enfeoffing Nicholas Norton of Brakene and Thomas Chaunseys of Hethill with the lands and tenements formerly belonging to Richard Dunstone in Brakene, Mulkeberton and Carleton
- with small penwork initial; 4 seal tags, with 2 seals of red wax remaining; contemporary and later annotations on dorse
Description and Transcription
Norfolk, Charter. Description and transcription* completed by Scott Matthews (with assistance from Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin), as part of work for a manuscript 吃瓜网 course with Dr. Williams Boyarin (ENGL), June 2022.
* Transcription conventions follow Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Cornell UP, 2007), pp. 75-77.
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