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Letters patent : Westminster, 1593 May 7.

BIB_ID
126668
Accession number
MA 3931
Creator
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
Display Date
1593 May 7.
Credit line
Gift of Richard A. Bertocci, 1982.
Description
1 item (1 p.) : vellum ; 350 x 643 mm.
Notes
Great Seal of Elizabeth, 150 mm. diameter, appended on a vellum tag.
Later endorsements on verso, including an Exchequer docket dated Barnsley and Wakefield, 10-13 October 1750.
Provenance
Gift of Richard A. Bertocci, 1982.
Summary
A land transfer, specifically a grant to Francis Woodrowe and George and Matthew Wentworth of the tithes of Notton and Chevet, Yorkshire, and lands etc. in the parish of Ruston, Yorkshire, formerly belonging to the priory of St. John the Evangelist in Pontefract and subsequently to George Wooddroffe.