Warwickshire - King James VI & I. A Royal Confirmation of title and interest
in a messuage and tenement with land, as it appears in the Court Rolls of "Over Brayles" [Brailes]
£550
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Auction: 30 September 2020 at 11:00 BST
Description
in the County of Warwickshire which Cuthbert Huckvale and his wife have contested in the Court of Chancery. On the 7th March 1614, in the Court of Chancery, Richard Sheldon Knight, tenant of the Manor of Brayles, produced the Court Rolls and on examination William Weston alias Cockbill is found to be properly entitled to the property and land, 1 page on parchment, in Latin, 21 lines, with the engrossed initial word Jacobus, with the name of [Sir Edward] Phelipps, Master of the Rolls at the lower right hand corner; with the pendant white wax Royal Seal.
Footnote
Note: The Court of Chancery [Common Pleas] frequently used just the centre portion of the Royal Seal omitting the legends around the perimeter. This Seal is the earlier of two used by King James and is extremely scarce - on the obverse the King is shown as sovereign of the Garter with crown, orb and scepture and wearing the collar, mantle and tippet of the Order. In the armorial decorations the imaginary arms of Cadwallader and of Edward the Confessor are displayed upon pennons, while the principal shield is a quarterly coat, the first and fourth quarters occupied by France and England quartered, the others by Scotland and Ireland. The legend [when present] reads JACOBUS DEI GRACIA ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE, FRANCIAE ET HIBERNIAE REX FEDEI DEFENSOR. On the reverse the old type is retained - the King is in full armour, with crowned and feathered helm, and among the flowers of the foreground the now usual greyhound in seen.
On the reverse of the document is the signature "J. Ellesmere Canc." This is the signature of Sir Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor (1540-1617). Egerton was employed by Queen Elizabeth on diplomatic missions, he was a friend of Francis Bacon and counselled Essex to show greater prudence; made Baron Ellesmere and Lord Chancellor in 1603.