BIB_ID
382685
Accession number
MA 3714
Creator
John, of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, 1340-1399.
Display Date
1396 July 5.
Credit line
Gift of William Knight Zewadski, 1980.
Description
1 item (1 p.) : vellum ; 16.3 x 39.0 cm
Notes
Revesby Abbey, Cistercian, in Lincolnshire, near Bolingbroke, founded in 1142, in ruin by 1538.
With a typed transcription and comments provided by the donor.
With the seal of John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Lincoln, and Leicester. The seal is appended on a tongue, is of a single matrix, round, of red wax with a good but imperfect impression, with loss of nearly half of the seal.
With a typed transcription and comments provided by the donor.
With the seal of John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Lincoln, and Leicester. The seal is appended on a tongue, is of a single matrix, round, of red wax with a good but imperfect impression, with loss of nearly half of the seal.
Provenance
Gift of William Knight Zewadski in December 1980. Mr. Zewadski purchased it from Goodspeed's, Boston in 1969.
Summary
Being an inspeximus issued by John of Gaunt on July 5, 1396 confirming a license given by Henry, Duke of Lancaster, November 24, 1352 permitting Robert, the abbot of Revesby to accept lands notwithstanding the Statute of Mortmain (1279).
Housed in
White paper portfolio (43.1 x 44.5 cm)
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