William Cecil, Document

Type: Document

Date: 15 March 1592

Setting: Legal (English Royal Chancery)

Produced By/For: William Cecil, John Fortescue, Martin Frobisher

Contents: Mortgage of Manors between Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Martin Frobisher for 500 pounds

Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.5

Location: Brown Collection Box 2 (Acc. 1991-088, Item #2)

Description

Introduction: Legal Land Legacies of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: An Introduction to the Early Indentures Held at the University of Victoria by Ken Streutker available here.

Detailed description and full transcription by Ken Streutker in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts, University of Victoria, Department of English, August 2016, available here.

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Cecil, William, Lord Burghley (1520-1598), Elizabeth I's Chief Minister

Document signed by William Cecil, Lord Burghley ("W Burghley"), Lord Treasurer of England, and by John Fortescue, Chancellor of the Exchequer, "for and behalf of our soveraigne Lady the Queen", a counterpart indenture by which the Queen mortgages the manors of Whitwood in the West Riding of Yorkshire and Finningly Grange in Nottinghamshire to the great navigator Sir Martin Frobisher. 1 page large oblong folio on vellum, in English, c.11 1/2x22 1/2" [i.e. 23 1/4"; 295x590 mm], signed at the foot by Burgley and Fortescue. Fortescue's seal is attached by the original vellum tag; Burghley's seal is lacking although the seal tag is present.

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