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SJLM/5/8
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- 1505 (Creation)
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1 item, parchment
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Grant of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, to John [Fisher], Bishop of Rochester, Hugh [Oldham], Bishop of Exeter, William Knyvett and David Phellipp, knights, Henry Horneby [Hornby], clerk, Humfrey Conyngesby, Robert Brudewell and William Cutlard, serjeants-at-law, James Whitsans, Gabries Sylvester, John Ffotehed, Robert Barnard and Hugh Assheton, clerks and John Saint John and William Bedill [Bedell], esquires, of the manors of Maxey and Torpell in Northamptonshire, in order to carry out the last wishes of the Countess and her executors; John Byrde and Nicholas Trygge, her attorneys there, are to deliver seisin of the two manors.
Attached to by the seal-tab is the delivery by the above two attorneys to John Saint John, acting in the name of the grantees of the two manors.
[Main document] 1 April, 20 Hen: VII [1505]
[Main document] signed "Margaret R" at the bottom
Endorsed: "A graunte from the Countesse of Richmond of lands in Northamptonshire"
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- Latin
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seal damaged
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Maxey and Torpell were later put into Huntingdonshire when the boundaries were re-drawn, and then into Cambridgeshire.