signed 560 x 225 mm with fold at bottom edge
1590
by Knight, Thomas and John Holwaye
1590. 560 x 225 mm with fold at bottom edge. Ink on parchment, old folds, with wax seal of a hound or wolf on a hanging parchment tag, cracking at back. Docketed on verso in a contemporary hand. 560 x 225 mm with fold at bottom edge. Sixteenth-century Hampshire History. This document recording a property transfer is made out between Thomas Knight of Hartley Mauditt, husbandman, and John Holwaye of Selborne, yeoman, both given as residing in the county of Southampton.
The legal formulations are traditional and repetitive and an excellent example of the terminology of the time. Representative phrases include:
"the sayd Thomas Knight for certeyne good causes and resonabull consideracyons ... by theis prosent doth frelye absolutlye and without condition geve graunt bargayne and sell unto the sayd John Holwaye his heires and assign forever and to the onlye sole and behous of the sayd John, his heires and assign forever all that the tenement ...."
Hartley Mauditt is today an abandoned village, but Selborne is occupied. Both are in Hampshire and this is a fascinating look at local English history, signed by several local and contemporary witnesses, including one Matthew Larch. (Inventory #: 314593)
The legal formulations are traditional and repetitive and an excellent example of the terminology of the time. Representative phrases include:
"the sayd Thomas Knight for certeyne good causes and resonabull consideracyons ... by theis prosent doth frelye absolutlye and without condition geve graunt bargayne and sell unto the sayd John Holwaye his heires and assign forever and to the onlye sole and behous of the sayd John, his heires and assign forever all that the tenement ...."
Hartley Mauditt is today an abandoned village, but Selborne is occupied. Both are in Hampshire and this is a fascinating look at local English history, signed by several local and contemporary witnesses, including one Matthew Larch. (Inventory #: 314593)