Esholt Priory Charter

English

West Yorkshire Archive Service

1485

The document is a licence under letters patent of Richard III permitting Margaret Clifford to give the advowson of the church of Belton-in-Axholme, Lincolnshire, to the Priory of Esholt, with power for the Priory to appropriate the revenues of the living.

• Medium: ink on vellum, with wax seal & silk cords
• Dimensions: 26 x 53 cm
• Grant Paid: £5000 ( Total: £24465)
• ArtFunded in: 1991
• Vendor: Bernard Quaritch Ltd

Provenance

Made for Margaret, Lady Clifford; by descent to Colonel Crompton-Stansfield, Esholt Hall, 1880; Sotheby's 19/6/1990, lot 70. Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

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