Indenture between Thomas Tuddenham and Edward Grimston

Description

Title: Indenture between Thomas Tuddenham and Edward Grimston
Published / Created: 1446 March 1.
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Indenture, on parchment, containing an agreement by Thomas Tuddenham to sell his lands at Alestaneswyck (possibly Stanwick St. John, North Yorkshire) to Edward Grimston for 400 marks, to be paid over 3 years. The contract also specifies that a manor in Suffolk will be surety for the purchase of these entailed lands
Description: In Middle English.
Indented at head of document with chirographic letters.
Signed: sign manual of Edward Grimston at end of text.
Signed: document signed by the scribe, "Brampton."
Docketed in a later hand.
Seal: red wax seal with the crest of Edward Grimston (damaged).
Layout: Single column of fifteen lines.
Script: anglicana.
Provenance: Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 1 leaf : 145 mm x 325 mm + seal.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Indentures England 15th century
Legal documents England 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Seals (artifacts) England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): England.
England
Connecticut
New Haven.
Yorkshire (England)
Subject (Name): Grimston, Edward, -1478.
Tuddenham, Thomas, 1401-1462.
Subject (Topic): Entail
Land tenure
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Grimston, Edward, -1478
Tuddenham, Thomas, 1401-1462
Entail > England
Land tenure > England > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Yorkshire (England) > Early works to 1800
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Indenture Between Thomas Tuddenham and Edward Grimston (Takamiya MS 134). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.