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ECR 54 027

Reference code

ECR 54 027

Title

Eton, Buckinghamshire and other properties: Indenture

Level

Item

Date

1 February 1473

Extent & medium

1 manuscript

Content description

Indenture between William Westbury, Provost and Supreme Governor of the College of Eton, and the scholars of the same, on one part, and William Thomas of Welde and John More of Wynge, collectors of tythes of the issues and profits of divers possessions and commodities... not being of a lord of Parliament or for the use of such... in the vills and hamlets within the hundred of Cotteslowe, co. Bucks, on the other. The collectors, by order of the commissioners for the said county and with the assent of the Provost and Scholars have this day delivered to the latter £87 8s 4¾d of the said tythes collected and levied, and placed the same in safe custody there until the order of the commonalty of the realm and the authority of Parliament be proclaimed.
Two seals, round, red wax, on doubled tags.
1) 13mm, an anchor.
2) 11mm, an eagle displayed.
Noted with a memorandum that Robert Caldecote on 9 December 1474 received the said sum on behalf of the King.
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