Miscellany relating to the Earls of Essex and the county of Somerset [manuscript], ca. 1608.
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Title
Miscellany relating to the Earls of Essex and the county of Somerset [manuscript], ca. 1608.
Description
12 leaves ; 31 x 21 cm
Associated name
Scope and content
Contains a copy of pleas at a Curia Regis court held in Bruton, Somerset, overseen by Henry Bourchier the Earl of Essex, in 1472; a contemporary copy of the 1608 copy made by Richard Wilkins, of the 13th century exemplification of grants of property by various kings to a monastic order in Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire; copies of two documents accounting the execution of the Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, one of them by Thomas Mountford and William Barlow. Also includes a formal letter in Latin by Thomas Heneage relating to a forest in Somerset and referring to the prior of "Brodlie", and half a letter only containing the subscription and signature of Henry Horner with a list of the monarchs of England on the verso.
Language Note
In English with one work in Latin.
Note
Smaller leaves inserted before leaves 1, 3, 9, and 11 with titles of documents, in a later hand.
Contents
1. leaves 1-2: "Pleas in the Jerney Itenerent, holden at Bruton in the county of Somerset" held on August 6, 1472, before Henry Bourchier, earl of Essex, Justice Itinerant (copy)
2. leaf 2v: "Nomina militium qui Eligerunt", subscribed with the name Thomas Heneage, for Somerset.
3. leaves 3-8: "A note and copye of the charter for Maiden Bradley taken out of their charter verbatim by Richard Wilkins Vicar of Cloford 1608"
4. leaves 9-10: "The true Copy in substance of the Earle of Essex, his behaviour, his speache, and prayer at the time of his Execution. the xxv of February 1600. With the points he confessed he was guilty in." (with copied signatures of Thomas Montford and William Barlow)
5. leaf 11: "The manner of the Earle of Essex his proceading to his death in the Tower of London the xxv of February 1600."
6. leaf 12: bottom half of a letter containing the subscription: "your most dewtifull and obedient sonne Henry Horner." Verso contains a list of monarchs from William the Conquerer to James I.
2. leaf 2v: "Nomina militium qui Eligerunt", subscribed with the name Thomas Heneage, for Somerset.
3. leaves 3-8: "A note and copye of the charter for Maiden Bradley taken out of their charter verbatim by Richard Wilkins Vicar of Cloford 1608"
4. leaves 9-10: "The true Copy in substance of the Earle of Essex, his behaviour, his speache, and prayer at the time of his Execution. the xxv of February 1600. With the points he confessed he was guilty in." (with copied signatures of Thomas Montford and William Barlow)
5. leaf 11: "The manner of the Earle of Essex his proceading to his death in the Tower of London the xxv of February 1600."
6. leaf 12: bottom half of a letter containing the subscription: "your most dewtifull and obedient sonne Henry Horner." Verso contains a list of monarchs from William the Conquerer to James I.
Source of acquisition
Acquired from Sotheby's (London) 2008 July 4, lot 7.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Somerset.
Item Details
Call number
X.d.555