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Lot 113

LEICESTER FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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LEICESTER FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Indenture made between "our Soveraigne Ladie Elizabeth" and "the Maior and coburgesses of the Towne of Leicester": selling to them for £35 all the "Leade Stonne and Tymber... remainge in and upon the decaied Churche in Leicester aforesaid commonly called St Peters Church being parcell of the possessions of her Ma.ties Duchie of Lancaster" in order for them "to erect Build and sett upp within the space of one yere next... in summ convenient and meet place within the said Towne of Leicester one Substantial Scholehouse mete and fitt for Children to be Taught in made with windowes and dowers necessarie and covered with slate" which they are to keep repaired; the indenture docketed in an unusually fine Italic hand, on one skin of vellum, seal tag (Duchy of Lancaster seal no longer present), minor dust-staining where folded and exposed, approximately 200 x 320mm., Westminster, 17 April [1573]

Footnotes

'WITHIN THE SAID TOWNE OF LEICESTER ONE SUBSTANTIAL SCHOLEHOUSE METE AND FITT FOR CHILDREN': this is the document by which Queen Elizabeth I grants permission for the erection of Leicester Free Grammar School, to be built from the remains of St Peter's Church. The building erected as a result still stands, and in 2005 was surveyed and restored by the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (see their website for further details of the school and its buildings).

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