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ECR 39 122

Reference code

ECR 39 122

Title

Royal Patents: Confirmation of all King's grants to Eton

Level

Item

Date

20 November 1459

Content description

Confirmation of all the King's grants to the Provost and College of Eton. The charters are not recited. Witnesses: Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, William, Archbishop of York, Thomas, Bishop of London, William, Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor, Walter, Bishop of Norwich, John, Bishop of Lincoln, Laurence, Bishop of Durham, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Henry, Duke of Exeter, Humfrey, Duke of Buckingham, Jasper, the King's half-brother, William, earl of Arundel, Henry, Earl of Northumberland, John, Earl of Shrewsbury, James [Butler], Earl of Wilts, Treasurer, John, Viscount Beaumont, Great Chamberlain, John de Clyfford, Leo Welles, John de Dudley and John Beauchamp, Steward of the Household, Knights. Given at Coventry, by the King.

The Great Seal, bronze wax, on plaited blue and green silk cords and gold thread. A good deal of the seal has been broken away.

Existence and location of copies

Enrolled on the King's Remembrancer's Memoranda Roll among the recorda of Hilary 38 Henry VI [Public Record Office, E.159/236 Hil. rot.2]

Publication note

See Heywood & Wright, pp.473-476
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