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Lot 96•
NORFOLK
10 November 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £8,400 inc. premium
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Antiquarian collection of late fifteenth and mid sixteenth century estate accounts assembled by the Norfolk antiquary Francis Blomefield, and later in the collections of Craven Ord, Sir Thomas Phillipps and Brian Spencer (Senior Keeper of the Museum of London), comprising Ord's contents-list and: (i) "Terrarium de Narburgh", apparently in the time of Henry Spelman, Recorder of Norwich, 1491, who acquired the Narburgh property by his second marriage, 28 leaves; (ii) compotus of William Sydey, deputy receiver of the lands of the late John de Vere, Earl of Oxford (d.1513), in Norfolk and elsewhere, 1529, 4 leaves; (iii) compotus of all the lands of Sir William Paston, mostly in Norfolk, 1547/48, 133 leaves, the few missing leaves probably blank; (iv) compotus of a large estate, possibly belonging to the Howard family, comprising properties in Norfolk and other counties, 1492/93, 50 leaves; (v) transcripts of five charters of Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, 1492/93, one leaf; with indices etc added in various Secretary hands; two gatherings with armorial bookplates of Francis Blomefield 'Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk. 1736' (placed there before the volume was assembled and bound), the volume's upper cover with the armorial bookplate Craven Ord, FRS, FSA, below which is Sir Thomas Phillipps's Middle Hill lion rampant stamp and inscribed in pencil "3840/ B 42.941" [ex. Sotheby's, 26 June 1967, lot 695], some 220 leaves in all, on seemingly one stock of mid 16th century paper carrying a finely-drawn hand-and-star watermark, some leaves stained, a few frayed or torn, but nevertheless overall in clean and attractive condition, eighteenth century calf, slightly defective, folio, the records c.1490-1550 [mid sixteenth century]
Footnotes
A RECORD OF THE LANDS OF SIR WILLIAM PASTON, FROM THE COLLECTION OF FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD, the historian of Norfolk. The gatherings within the volume have been annotated in a variety of hands, which might enable the earlier provenance of these records to be traced; for example, on the first leaf is a note in an early seventeenth century hand: "Memorandum that it appears by this booke Graces Manor to have been in the hands of Penteny Prior"; with below in a slightly later hand: "This book was made in the 14th of Ed: 4th anno dom[ini] 1461".