Details

Subjects:

Essex (England) -- Early works to 1800.
Essex (England) -- Economic conditions.

Form/Genre:

Leases.
Legal documents.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Latin, with a few words in Middle English.

Biography/History:

A 12th-century priory in Essex dedicated to Mary and John the Baptist, first called Bicknacre in the 13th century and dissolved and united with another monastic house in 1507. Richard Petyrton was prior from 1490 to 1499.

Summary:

Lease by Richard (Petryton), prior of the monastic house of Bykenacre, to husbandman John James Junior of East Hanningfield, Essex, of the tenement (house with attached land) called Canonbernes for 13 years, with the right to take wood from the property annually for fuel and for making and repairing carts and ploughs. Lease is written in 19 lines of a cursive documentary script and has an indented top edge and seal tag but no seal.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Maggs Bros. (London), cat. 1410 (2007), no. 13.

Contributor:

Petyrton, Richard.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

166326008