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Auction: 19022 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 2003

Autographs
1454 (12 November) in the reign of King Henry VI, indenture in Latin on vellum being a grant (300x135mm) by Ralph Couper and William Couper of Hawstead (just south of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk) to Thomas Coke of Great Welnetham, Roger Drury of Hawstead, Nicholas Helpston of Rushbrook, John Smyth of Stansfield, Robert Coket of Bury St. Edmunds and Geoffrey Gyppes of Hawstead. The grant is of a messuage and a piece of pasture of six acres and a piece of arable land in Hawstead; the messuage and pasture at "haustedgrene", abutting east on the common pasture called "halstedgrene" and the piece of arable land (one acre) in the field called Jelyonsfeld, with the land of the rector east, and the aforesaid pasture north. Witnessed by Thomas Rede, Alan Legat, William Wyffyn, John Makeroo, John Spark and John Medwe. There is a minor stain and only fragments of seal remain, otherwise in a good state of preservation. Photo

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Estimate
£500 to £600