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- [1554/5] (Creation)
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1 membrane : Parchment ; 445 x 810-820 mm. (205 x 550 mm. text block of 35 lines).
Backed onto board, framed and glazed.
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Archival history
Note by R[obert] D[avies] [IV] on dorse of grant [as recorded in a transcript secured to the back of the frame]: 'This was found amongst the writings at Byghtan [Bychton], and borrowed of my Uncle [Piers] Pennant [d. 1690] to my Father [Mutton Davies], who promised to restore it when demanded. Afterwards my Uncle Pennant bestowed this upon me.'
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Scope and content
Letters patent, dated at Westminster, 11 February, 1 & 2 Philip and Mary [1554/5], issued by Mary I, Queen of England and Ireland, and Philip II of Spain, as King of England and Ireland, granting lands in Broughton [?Bychton], Marton [Mertyn] and Tredesmowen [?Trefednywain], [all in the parish of Whitford], in the commote of Coleshill, Flintshire, to John Davye [Davies, of Gwysaney].
The document is decorated with a fine initial double-portrait of the monarchs enthroned, in ink and wash within the initial letter 'P' of interlacing strapwork, and bears the secretarial signatures of both. Large strapwork initial letters appear in the first line, and the margins are illuminated with heraldic emblems in gold and colours. The great seal of Mary I is appended, attached by the original green and white plaited laces.
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Language of material
- Latin
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Latin.
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Finding aids
Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: Philip and Mary, 4 vols (London: HMSO, 1936-9), II, 321-2.
Historic Manuscripts Commission, Sixth Report (London: HMSO, 1877), p. 422.
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Publication note
The context of the issuing of the grant is briefly discussed in G. A. Usher, Gwysaney and Owston (Denbigh, 1964), p. 21.
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