Thomas Mowbray, Charter

Type: Charter

Date: 1391

Setting: Court

Produced By/For: Thomas Mowbray, earl of Nottingham

Contents: Grants to priory

Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.4

Location: Drawer 5A/11 (Acc. 1989-069, Item #4)

Description from Vendor Catalogue (Maggs Catalogue)

Mowbray, Thomas, Earl of Nottingham and First Duke of Norfolk (1366-1399), Earl Marshal of England and Favourite of Richard II

Charter confirming and continuing the earlier grants and donations to the Augustinian Priory of Newnham in Bedfordshire by William de Beauchamp and other benefactors. 1 large page on vellum, ca. 22x27 1/2 ins. [560x700mm], 54 lines in Latin in a good upright gothic hand, commencing with a large illuminated initial letter 'T', ca. 5 3/4x4 1/2 ins., in gold, silver, red, blue, and white, containing the Mowbray arms within blue and white tracery over a gold coronet. London, 14 November 15 Richard II (1391). Small holes and splits in folds, but in sound and satisfactory condition.

Articles

Lahey, Stephanie J.  "On the Origin and Provenance of Victoria, McPherson Library, Doc.Brown.4: Sir Thomas Mowbray's Care of Newnham Priory." Florilegium 33 (2016): 63-91. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/11171.

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