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Receipt, Great Eversden, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3686

Scope and Contents

Warenne Adam and Henry Skotte, churchwardens of the parish church of Great Eversden, and Thomas Kynge, parishioner in the same, acknowledge receipt from Richard Wylks, clerk, Henry Gaderyck, John Hudleston, Thomas Rudston, and Thomas Bowles esquires, commissioners, a silver communion chalice weighing 10oz, along with three great bells and one 'saunce' bell 'beynge in the steple of the sayd parishe churche, there to remayne unspoyled, unembecylled, and unsold untyll the kynges highnes pleazasure be further knowen'. Indenture, signed by Wylks, Huddleston, Goderick, and Rudston. Not sealed. In margin, in the same hand: 'Eversdon Magna'.

Dates

  • Creation: 19 May 1553 (7 Edward VI)

Conditions Governing Access

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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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