ECR 01 135
Reference code
ECR 01 135
Title
Modbury, Devon: Instructions from John the Abbot
Level
Item
Date
31 August 1456
Content description
Instructions from John, the Abbot of the moastery of the Blessed Mary of St. Peter supra Dyvam, to William Beuselin, Prior of Monteburi, to receive their fellow monk, John Defresne, a priest of the monastery, in the Priory. Given at the monastery.
Seal, pointed oval, 50.mm. originally about 55.mm. brown wax, on tongue; flattened, and worn at edges. Beneath a Gothic canopy the Blessed Virgin, seated, with the Holy Child in her left arm; convolvulus. In base, head of the Abbot beneath a round arch between shields of arms, per pale a fesse indented(?).
Seal, pointed oval, 50.mm. originally about 55.mm. brown wax, on tongue; flattened, and worn at edges. Beneath a Gothic canopy the Blessed Virgin, seated, with the Holy Child in her left arm; convolvulus. In base, head of the Abbot beneath a round arch between shields of arms, per pale a fesse indented(?).
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