Indenture between Thomas Tuddenham and Edward Grimston.

Description

Title: Indenture between Thomas Tuddenham and Edward Grimston.
Published / Created: 1446 March 1.
Publication Place: England,
Abstract: Indenture, on parchment, containing an agreement by Thomas Tuddenham to sell his lands at Alestaneswyck (possibly Stanwick St. John, North Yorkshire) to Edward Grimston for 400 marks, to be paid over 3 years. The contract also specifies that a manor in Suffolk will be surety for the purchase of these entailed lands.
Description: Docketed in a later hand.
From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Indented at head of document with chirographic letters.
Layout: Single column of fifteen lines.
Script: anglicana.
Seal: red wax seal with the crest of Edward Grimston (damaged).
Signed: document signed by the scribe, "Brampton."
Signed: sign manual of Edward Grimston at end of text.
Extent: 1 l. : parchment ; 145 x 325 mm + seal.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Format: text
Genre: Indentures--England--15th century.
Legal documents--England--15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.
Seals (artifacts)--England--15th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): Yorkshire (England)--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name): Grimston, Edward,---1478.
Tuddenham, Thomas,--1401-1462.
Subject (Topic): Entail--England.
Land tenure--England--Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Indenture Between Thomas Tuddenham and Edward Grimston. Takamiya MS 134.