Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Dronfeld, Edmund de
• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9950083933503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122543398
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5008393

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Language

Summary

Deed of manumission recording the freeing of Robert, son of Adam, of Flockton, by Edmund son of Thomas de Dronfeld. The Dronfeld family had estates at West Bretton and Flockton in Yorkshire, England. Written at West Bretton, the first Sunday after the feast of Saint Michael (2 October), 1345. Witnessed by John son of John of Dronfeld, John son of Richard de West Bretton, William son of Michael of Flockton, John son of Peter of Flockton, and John del Lathes, clerk. Wax seal on parchment tag (reattached at an early period), showing a crossbow or anchor.

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 29224 (inscription on verso).
   
• Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Mundesley, England), cat. 10 (2011), no. 125.
   

Subjects topical

• Serfdom--England--History
• Serfs--Emancipation--England

Genres

• Legal documents
• Seals (artifacts)
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• English
• Legal
• Document
• Seals
• History

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