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JAMES I AND VI, KING [WARWICKSHIRE & GLOUCESTERSHIRE, JOHN SOMERVILLE (1560-83)]
MAGNIFICENT ROYAL LETTERS PATENT DATED DECEMBER 1ST 1615,
£1,375
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
granting to Michael and Thomas Cole, gentlemen, the manor of Edstone and Bearley, Warwicks. and the lordship and lands, the manor of Aston Somerville, Glos., the manor of Cockbury, and lands in Cockbury and Winchcomb., Glos., all lands formerly of John Somervile, attainted (d. 1583), and the rectory &c. of Barmer, Norfolk, formerly of the monastery of "Cokkefford", and later of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, attainted (d. 1572), Dated 1. Dec. 1615, with Great Seal (second) of James I, in dark brown wax, on red and white cords; complete and well preserved. Some part of the impression very clean, others somewhat flattened, endorsed as enrolled in the Exchequer Memoranda, Michaelmas Term, 1615
Footnote
Note: The monastic house mentioned is presumably the Priory of Coxford, Norfolk, dissolved in 1536.
John Somervile or Somerville was only in his early 20s when he was found dead in the Tower of London in 1583, after being sentenced to death for his planned assassination of Elizabeth I.