BIB_ID
453569
Accession number
MA 1254.26
Creator
Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556.
Credit line
Purchased before 1920.
Description
1 item (1 page) : vellum ; 12.3 x 24 cm
Notes
Pearson lists the month of writing as January and the place of writing as Lambeth.
From the collection Autograph Letters and Original Manuscripts of or relative to Members of the Royal House of Tudor. Housed in two bound volumes when purchased from Pearson; subsequently disbound. Some items were removed in 1920, cataloged, and housed in the Rulers of England sequence.
From the collection Autograph Letters and Original Manuscripts of or relative to Members of the Royal House of Tudor. Housed in two bound volumes when purchased from Pearson; subsequently disbound. Some items were removed in 1920, cataloged, and housed in the Rulers of England sequence.
Provenance
Purchased from J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
A dispensation from monastic vows, with license to secularise and hold a benefice with cure of souls, issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, to Thomas Bede (Twysden), late a monk, of Battle Abbey. Signed by Roger Touneshend and Jo. Hughes.
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