Lease indenture, Grampound, Oxford

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Doc.38
  • Dates of Creation
      4 Apr. 1597
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 item(s) vellum vellum

Scope and Content

Peter Pory of the University of Oxford lets to Mathew Holmes of Christchurch, Oxford, singingman, certain property in Grampound, Oxford, for a term of twenty-one years. Alienation is forbidden except by special leave. The document is cut off down the left-hand side. See: Ian Harwood, 'The origins of the Cambridge Lute Manuscripts', Lute Society Journal 5 (1963), 32-48.

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Acquisition Information

From the binding of Nn.6.36.

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