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Digital Sigillography Resource
Register of Seal Catalogues, Seal Impressions, and Seal MatricesItem details
| Held by | Canterbury Cathedral Archives | |
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| Reference | --DCc-ChAnt/L/35 | |
| Date (Digisig) | 1291 | |
| Location (Digisig) | St Michael Cornhill |
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Impressions, matrices, casts
Seal impression details |
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| Support Status | attached | |
| Attachment | Tag | |
| Position | support 1, Front | |
| Example of | Seal details | |
| Described in | McEwan, Seals in London (1075) | |
Event and Participants
| Part | 10565268 | ||
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| Event | 10565268 | ||
| Description (Repository) | Level file RefNo CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/35 PreviousNumbers Y 12 (Norris); L 34 (late 19th c); Seal 35 (Sheppard) Title Grant Date 15 Apr 1291 Description From: William Smythiot, citizen and cutler ('cutillarius') of London To: John de Boktone, citizen and coffer-maker ('coffarius') of London [Document damaged. Small area of text lost.] All that house he has separate from his other house in London in St Michael Cornhill parish, measuring 16 ells 2 inches long as specified between Cornhill to south and John's tenement to north, with a frontage 6¼ ells and 2 inches wide along the king's street ('vicum') [Cornhill?], with William's tenement to east and the tenement of Nicholas de Wynton' to west, and 6½ ells less 2 inches wide within the house. For annual payments of 1 mark to the prioress [and convent] of [H]aliwell [Priory, Shoreditch, Middlesex] and 1 clove ('clavus Gariophili') to William, both payable as specified. For this John has also paid 16 marks as a gersum fine. Given at London. Witnesses: 'Dominus' Ralph of Sandwich, warden ('custos') of London; Thomas Romeyn, sheriff of London; William de Leheyre, sheriff of London; Martin Box, alderman of Cornhill ward ('ipsius Warde'); Nicholas de Wynton'; Godwin the skinner ('feriparius' for 'feliparius'?); Ralph le leu; Richard de Lamech'; Robert the fishmonger ('pissenarius'); Ralph de Honilane; John de Elsingham; Richard de Clavering'; Stephen Actheholte; Edmund le Tayllur; John, serjeant of Cornhill ward ('serviens ipsius Warde') Language Latin PhysicalDescription Parchment, 1m, seal, large hole caused by rodent damage to right, large area of text lost, rodent damage to edges at top and bottom right RelatedMaterial Related charter: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/40 Extent 1 document | ||
| William Smythiot, Cives et Cutler London | Grantor | ||
| Ralph de Sandwich | Witness | ||
| Thomas le Romeyn, Civis London | Witness | ||
| William Leyre | Witness | ||
| Martin Box | Witness | ||
| Nicholas de Winchester | Witness | ||