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    • Title:Indenture of receipt, 1540 Feb 27.
    • Physical Description:1 item (1 l.) ; 60 cm. x 25 cm.
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    • Notes:Signed, "by me John Williams" (Master of the King's Jewels).
      Binding: modern quarter morocco case.
      Bookplate: Mark Lansburgh Collection.
      In English.
      Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 27412). Ex libris Mark Lansburgh. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2001.
    • Summary:Manuscript inventory, on parchment, in a secretary hand, of ceremonial plate and jewels collected from religious houses in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Glocestershire, Wiltshire, and Hertfordshire by several of the King's Commissioners for the suppression of the monasteries and turned over to the Master of the King's Jewels. The commissioners named include Robert Southwell, Edward Carne, John Ap Rice, and William Barnes. The sources of the plate were some of the larger houses targeted in the 1539 Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries and include St. Swithun's Winchester, Amesbury, Malmesbury, Cirencester, Hailes, Pershore, and Tewksbury. The plate listed comprises chalices; crosses; monstrances; cups; a pyx; gold mitres, and "thirteen other Myters garnisshd with perles."
      Composed of one sheet of parchment; head indented.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • Cite as:Indenture of Receipt. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
      Church plate--England.
      Convents--England.
      Church and state--Great Britain.
      Monasteries--England.
      Monasticism and religious orders--England.
      Secularization--Great Britain.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
      Lansburgh, Mark--Bookplate.
      Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872--Ownership.
    Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9361898