GRANT OF HENRY VIII
£611
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
Description
The original Royal grant, for the sum of £317 2s. 6d., of the Manor of Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire, previously belonging to the Monastery of St. Mary de Pratis, Leicester, to Thomas Harvey of Elmesthorpe, 1st November, a.r. 32nd (i.e. 1540 ) ... Formal document on vellum, the heading elaborately decorated with pen drawings of the components of the royal arms with a figure of the monarch, crowned and seated and holding the orb and sceptre. 36 x 70 cms. With cords but lacking the seal. Three small holes, none affecting the text. Preserved in a morocco backed box along with a typed transcript and translation similarly preserved
Note: After the dissolution of the monasteries, King Henry VIII granted the Lordship of Kirkby Mallory to Thomas Harvey, an already wealthy landowner. His estates at that time included lands at Elmesthorpe, as well as the Manors of Fleckney, Barwell and Hinckley which together with Kirkby Mallory made up the following, a 1000 acres of land, 500 of meadow, 1000 of pasture, 200 of wood, 1000 of furze and heath and 30 of homesteads. Three years later in 1544 Thomas Harvey died, and was buried in the nearby village of Peckleton. Following his death, the estates and lands were divided between his co-heirs, being his three surviving daughters and a granddaughter named Anne Fowler, then aged 14. Anne inherited the Manor of Kirkby Mallory and later married John Noel, son of Andrew Noel, Earl of Gainsborough. This was to be the beginning of the Noel association with Kirkby Mallory which was to last some 370 years. (See also Victoria County History of Leicestershire Vol. V)