Gift of land, Great and Little Eversden, Cambridgeshire

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Doc.3682
  • Dates of Creation
      4 July 1498 (At Great Eversden, 4 July 13 Henry VII [1498])
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 item(s) vellum vellum

Scope and Content

Richard Adam son of Thomas Adam, ?William Laurence, and Alexander Gybbe, confirm their gift to William Adam ... Robert Kynge, and Thomas ?Overy, of all their lands in the vill and fields of Great and Little Eversden which they held lately together with William Adam and Nicholas Roger, now deceased, by the gift of Thomas Adam of Great Eversden. Deed poll, witnessed by William Roger, William ?Laurence, William ?Barnard, John Emyn, and many others. Three red round seals. Parchment has shrunk at one end and has sustained other water damage. Endorsed in a ?seventeenth-century hand: 'Eversden'. Further endorsed in pencil: '14'.

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Mrs R G Harrison, The Little House, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, 13 May 1941

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