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A Collection of Medieval English Charters
Collection
Identifier: Ch_ang_01
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of 43 medieval private charters (documents recording the exchange of property or rights between two or more private parties), ranging in date from the 13th century to the 16th century. All of the items in this collection were created in the English counties of Yorkshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, and Norfolk. Only two items were created in Norfolk (Ch_ang_01_14 and Ch_ang_01_17), one item concerns lands in both Lancashire and Yorkshire, and only one concerns...
Dates:
1200 - 1571
Collection of Early Modern European Documents
Collection
Identifier: MSE/EM 3600
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the early modern European documents (dating from the 16th to 18th centuries) owned by the Hesburgh Library which are not part of a discrete archival collection. That is to say, this is an artificial collection of early modern European documents, grouped not by provenance, but by origin (early modern European) and genre (diplomatics). As such, it is composed of a wide variety of diplomatic genres, including: papal bulls, lease and releases, leases, surrenders,...
Dates:
1500 - 1800
John Dinsmore, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0503
Abstract
The personal papers and court records of the New Hampshire farmer, innkeeper, and justice of the peace John Dinsmore, Jr. (1759-1814). The greater part of the collection consists of Rockingham County court records.
Dates:
1782-circa 1920; Majority of material found within 1782-1822
The Canterbury All Saints Deeds
Collection
Identifier: MSE/EM 3707
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the history of ownership of a property in Canterbury, England, located at the modern address of 8 All Saints' Ln, Canterbury CT1 2AU, UK (formerly 8 Brick Ln), between 1695 and 1935. The documents in this collection would have been compiled and used by each owner to establish and defend the chain of ownership and tenure of the property. The manuscript documents in this collection trace the property’s transformation from nondescript land and buildings to a complex...
Dates:
1694 - 1935