Legal document, in a professional hand, signed by the first Baron Lumley, containing an acquittance for 2500 pounds received from Edward Greville for the manor of Mickleton in Gloucestershire.
Description:
Attached seal (worn)., Docketed in later hands., Part of Phillipps MS 40459. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Signed: "Lumley.", and Signed: "Ric. Lewkenor."
Subject (Geographic):
Gloucestershire (England)--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Greville, Edward,--Sir,--1542-1616., Lewkenor, Richard,--1542-1616., Lumley, John Lumley,--Baron,--1534?-1609., and Lumley, John Lumley,--Baron,--1534?-1609--Autograph.
Subject (Topic):
Land tenure--England--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript document, signed by William Fellow, Norroy King of Arms, granting Richard Revell of Shorlonglegge (Shirland) in Derbyshire a crest for his coat of arms.
Description:
Decoration: Portrait figure of Norrey King of Arms within the initial "T," in full color; illustration of Revell's coat of arms with the newly granted crest filling left margin, in full color; floral border, top and right margins, in full color., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column of 20 lines., Script: secretary script., Seals of William Fellow and of the office of Norroy King of Arms suspended from document., and Signed: "Norrey King of Arms of the north."
Subject (Name):
College of Arms (Great Britain)--Early works to 1800., Fellow, William,---1546., and Revell, Robert,--1502-1555.
Subject (Topic):
Heraldry--England., Heraldry--England--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Visitations, Heraldic--England.