feoffments

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...

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,...