Esholt Priory Charter
Artist: English
Location: West Yorkshire Archive Service
Date: 1485
Materials: ink on vellum, with wax seal & silk cords
Dimensions: 26 x 53 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £5,000 (Total: £24,465)
Vendor: Bernard Quaritch Ltd
Review number: 3600 (1991)
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.
Description:
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.
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