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Gift of land, Great and Little Eversden, Cambridgeshire

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3682

Scope and Contents

Richard Adam son of Thomas Adam, ?William Laurence, and Alexander Gybbe, confirm their gift to William Adam ... Robert Kynge, and Thomas ?Overy, of all their lands in the vill and fields of Great and Little Eversden which they held lately together with William Adam and Nicholas Roger, now deceased, by the gift of Thomas Adam of Great Eversden. Deed poll, witnessed by William Roger, William ?Laurence, William ?Barnard, John Emyn, and many others. Three red round seals. Parchment has shrunk at one end and has sustained other water damage. Endorsed in a ?seventeenth-century hand: 'Eversden'. Further endorsed in pencil: '14'.

Dates

  • Creation: 4 July 1498 (At Great Eversden, 4 July 13 Henry VII [1498])

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Extent

1 item(s) (vellum) : vellum

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented by Mrs R G Harrison, The Little House, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, 13 May 1941

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

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