Identity area
Reference code
JCMR/Gray 1- . . . 383/Gray 1-10/10
Title
Licence of Mortmain of Henry VI
Date(s)
- 5 December 1448 ('Teste me ipso apud Westm: quinto die Decembr. Anno regni nostri vicesimo septimo') (Creation)
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Item
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Name of creator
(1421-1471)
Biographical history
Henry VI, the only son of Henry V. Reigned 1 Sept. 1422-4 March 1461 and 30 Oct. 1470-11 April 1471
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Scope and content
Generally empowers the Nuns to acquire lands to the annual value of £5; also exempts them from the requisitions of purveyors ('provisores, emptores seu captores') for the King and Queen and their successors and other magnates. Written at Westminster, witnessed by the King himself.
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Notes area
Note
Great seal attached (white wax, papier-mache?; on the obverse side the figure of a king enthroned, on the reverse a mounted warrior), slightly defaced.
Alternative identifier(s)
former reference
Caryl A.14