Title from note in previous owner's hand., Date from British Museum online catalogue., Taken from a brass matrix formerly owned by Horace Walpole., Inscription: s: ric :cletherowe : admiralli: occidentalis: anglie., British Museum 'Cat. of Seals', no. 1042; 'Archaeologia', xlvi, p. 369., and British Museum online catalogue; registration no. 1858,0629.1.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single secretary hand, of a copy of the will of Sir John Fitzjames. The will opens with an appeal to "the most blessed Mother and virgyn Marie St. Anthony and St. Chr[ist]ofer" for their intercession for his soul; arrangements for funeral and intercessory Masses and for a Month's Mind service. and The extremely detailed lists of personal and estate bequests that follow comprise a virtual household inventory of the manor house at Redlynch in Somerset. His widow, Eleanor Draycott, receives liferent of Redlynch and Knoll as well as use of the household furnishings, including the beds, hangings, "carpettes, cusshyons, dysshes, potts, and pannes," as well as tablecloths, jewelry, and various articles of plate. Fitzjames also leaves "my greate book of Statutes in vellum or parchment" to his cousin Nicholas Fitzjames, the nearest male heir and successor to Redlynch; silver cups to various other relatives; and ten shillings for "every mayden of good and honest conversation" in his household.
Description:
Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2000., In English and Latin., With: 3 documents on parchment concerning James Fitzjames. (1) Indenture transferring revenues and fees inherited from Sir John Fitzjames in the county of Somerset, signed and dated 26 June 1568. (2) Indenture concerning the same, signed and dated 26 June 1570. (3) Attestation of probate of a will for a member of the Fitzjames family in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, signed by the Clerk Thomas Argall and issued in the name of Archbishop Cranmer, n.d. (damaged)., and With: volume of manuscript transcripts of three of the documents made for Sir Thomas Phillipps, with genealogical notes on the Fitzjames family; not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Draycott, Eleanor, Fitzjames family, and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Decedents' estates--England, Inheritance and succession--England, Manors--England, Material culture--England, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Prayers for the dead, Saints--Cult, and Wills
The confutation of the .xiii. Articles, wherunto Nicolas Shaxton, late byshop of Salisburye
Image Count:
1
Publisher:
by John Day, and William Seres, dwellynge in Sepulchres parish, at the signe of the Resurrection, a litle aboue Holbourne conduite
Collection Created:
Imprinted at London : by John Day, and William Seres, dwellynge in Sepulchres parish, at the signe of the Resurrection, a litle aboue Holbourne conduite, [1548]
Cordiform projection., From: "Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber geographiae cum tabulis...", From: Clavdii Ptholemaei Alexandrini Liber geographiae cvm tabvlis...1511., Lanman collection; dgvmp2008., Map is printed in two colors, red and black., Outer map border shows decorative windheads and zodiacal signs., The author's name is often given as Bernard Sylvanus (see Shirley entry 32, plate 35) or Bernardus Sylvanus., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
Per Iacobum Pentium de Leucho,
Subject (Name):
Pencio, Jacopo, active 1486-1530 and Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Geographia
Cordiform projection., From Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini Liber geographiae cum tabulis ... [Venice : Jacopo Pencio, 1511]., Lanman Collection; dgvmp2008., Left side of the map indicates climates; right side shows zodiacal signs., Map is known as the Bernardus Sylvanus world map., Map is printed in two colors, red and black., Silvani does not show any part of the new world on this map., The verso of the right part of map is showing the western part of the British Isles., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
Jacopo Pencio,
Subject (Name):
Gastaldi, Giacomo, ca. 1500-ca. 1565, Pencio, Jacopo, fl. 1486-1530, and Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Geographia
Appears in Mercator's Galliae tabula geographicae ... [Duisburg ca.1595]., Latin text on verso., Page number on verso "163-164"., Relief shown pictorially., Sheet measures 45.5 x 56.2 cm., and Title supplied by Koeman.
Publisher:
Gerardum Mercatorem,
Subject (Geographic):
Basel (Switzerland : Canton)--Maps--Early works to 1800, Switzerland--Maps--Early works to 1800, and Zurich (Switzerland : Canton)--Maps--Early works to 1800
