Indenture, Immingham

Title

Indenture, Immingham

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 320

Associated place

Wakefield

Imingham (Immingham), Lincs.

York

Date

xii med.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

sheet

Support

Vellum. Folded and cut with an intact seal, now worn beyond legibility (Clay could read enough to identify it as that of Alice St Quentin).

Hands

Written in caroline, s. xii med.

Acquisition

Purchased at Sotheby’s from the Leishman Fund [probably c.1970].

Provenance

Two medieval file notes (both s. xv ex.) identifying the charter as from Imingham (Immingham), Lincs. , together with several sets of initials (including RD, perhaps ‘Robert dapifer’, but perhaps Roger Dodsworth, appearing on at least two further charters involving the St Quintins, ed. Clay, 127–8) (the dorse).

Michael P. Palmer of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, in a letter of 20 November 1978 kept with the MS, explains that the charter was in St Mary’s Tower, York, and apparently consulted there and then removed by Roger Dodsworth, as part of the research for his Monasticon Boreale (BodL, MSS Dodsworth 7 and 8); Dodsworth left the charter at Chevet Hall, near Wakefield, then (s. xvii med.) the home of Sir Francis Neville .

The collection of Sir Thomas Pilkington (his Misc. No. 39) of Chevet Hall, nr. Wakefield (when described by Clay).

Nearly all the Pilkington charters were acquired by H. L. Bradfer-Lawrenceand bequeathed to the Yorkshire Archaeological Societyin the mid-1960s; this item was not among those received by the Society.