Manuscript charter confirming grants to Weedon Pinkney Priory, Northamptonshire

Item date: 1148-68
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 220
Item date acquired: 1972
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Notification by Gilbert de Pinkey to the Bishop of Lincoln that he has confirmed the grants made by his grandfather and father. The earliest surviving charter to Weedon Pinkney Priory; bears an equestrian seal on a leather tag, one half of which has been neatly broken away, possibly to serve as a chirograph. Illustrated as plate I of AR

Item Provenance
Phillipps MS 32926, sold at Sothebys July 1972, Lot 1750