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Title: Letters of Charles II ('le Mauvais'), King of Navarre to the Vicomte d'Avranches instructing him to reward Jehan le Roussel dit Friquet 'aide de nostre cuisine' for his services, both in his office and in other ways, with the sum of 30 livres tournois &c. Cherbourg; 28 April 1370
Date: 1370
Summary: 272mm. by 102mm., letter in French from King Charles II of Navarre to the Vicomte d'Avranches, instructing him to reward the bearer (Jehan le Roussel dit Friquet), countersigned by one Froissart, dated 28 April 1370, 7 lines in dark brown ink, seal and tag missing, slightly trimmed on right-hand edge, in fine red morocco gilt-tooled binding

Title: Wages in agriculture, 1945-46
Date: 1946

Title: Carta executoria de hidalguía dada a pedimiento de doña Guiomar de Alarcón Ulloa vezina de Jaén
Date: 1593

Title: Philip II, as Duke of Milan, appoints the great Duke of Alba to receive his oaths of allegiance

Title: Wages in agriculture, 1946-47
Date: 1947

Title: Sentences, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [fragment]
Date: mid 13th century
Summary: Parchment folio with text in brown and red ink, with decorated initial in red, blue green and brown. 29.7 x 20 cm. The fragment is stored in a binder from The Schoyen Collection, MS 598.

Title: Commentary on the Pauline Epistles, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [fragment]
Date: late 12th century
Summary: Vellum bifolium and single leaf, written in early gothica textualis with brown ink. The text is a fragment from Collectanea in Epistolas Sancti Pauli by Petrus Lombardus. It begins with comment shortly before Thessalonians 4:14, and proceeds to the Epistle to the Romans, and then the First Corinthians, ending with comment on 1st Corinthians 15:52-15:56. (Catalogued by Prof. Marvin Colker, University of Virginia, December 1979) The fragment is stored in a binder from The Schoyen Collection, MS 639. 32.9 x 23.3 cm

Title: Household accounting document.
Date: 1503
Summary: Alcala de Henares, Spain. Isabel I, Queen of Spain. Document on paper, in Spanish, signed "Yo la Reyna." Alcalá de Henares, 12 July 1503. Folio (29.3 cm). On the first two and a half pages the queen orders Sancho de Paredes, her chamberlain, to turn a large number of things over to Juan de Tabira, her under-chamberlain. The items to be given are listed: woolens and linens, including hangings and bedding linens, all itemized and minutely described. The top half of the last page is a receipt signed by Tabira. The document has the usual slash of cancellation (visible above) indicating that it has been entered into the account books.

Title: Grant of weekly market and two annual fairs...
Date: 1554-04-24
Summary: Document signed ('Marye the quene'). 17 lines in a neat secretary hand, on paper, countersigned by Sir John., A grant of a weekly Friday market and two annual fairs to Lyme Regis. Mary gives a warrant to an unidentified official to draw up the grant for the town of ’Kings Lyme’ [Lyme Regis] of a weekly Friday market and two annual three-day fairs in February and September: the grants to include all stallage, piccage [a fee for breaking ground at a fair], tollage and customs with the court of piepowder [a special tribunal for actions during the market or fair], as well as the right of correcting weights and measures; those attending the fairs may not be ’suyd arrested or molested in any suyte ... except it be for acc[i]ons and suyts onely rysyng... w[i]t[h]in the seid Fayers’. ’Where at the humble suyte and peticion of the Burgesses of our Towne of Kings Lyme in our Countie of Dorsett, we are right welle contented and pleaced ... to give and graunte unto the Burgesses of our seid Towne and to their Successours forev[er] one m[ar]kett to be kepte weekely w[ith]in our seid Towne on the Friday forev[er], And also t[w]o Fayres yerely there to be holden and kept, that is to say thone Fayre to begynne the firste day of February yerely forev[er], And there to conynue three dayes then next folowyng, And thother Fayre to begynne the xx [20th] day of September yerely and there to continue for three days then next folowyng’. The grant for Lyme Regis was formally issued on 14 June. This charter falls at a lull in the turbulent first year of Mary's reign, between the quelling of Wyatt's Rebellion in February and the preparations for her marriage to Philip of Spain in July.

Title: Grant of Alfonso V of Aragon and Sicily
Date: 1421
Summary: "Grant by Alfonso V of Aragon and Sicily, "the Magnanimous", to Rambau de Corbera (Rambaldus de Corbaria), of a vast territory in Sardinia, in Gallura, comprising a number of depopulated villages from the environs of the present Santa Teresa Gallura (in the northern point of Sardinia) to the environs of the present Castelsardo.

Title: Grant of Arms
Date: 1559

Title: Savitar, 1914. Volume 20
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