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A Note on the Hutton Conyers Charter and Related Fenland Manuscript

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

Paul Binski
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The name of Conyers is most readily associated with the magnificent falchion, perhaps once belonging to Richard, Earl of Cornwall as King of the Romans, used until 1860 by the Conyers family as a sword of tenure of their lands at Sockburn from the Bishop of Durham, and now in the possession of the Cathedral. Another neglected work of some interest is linked to this Yorkshire family: a decorated charter, dated 27 October 1320, licensing by letters patent the alienation in mortmain by Robert of Conyers of lands in Hutton Conyers, near Ripon, to a chaplain for the daily celebration of divine service in the chapel of St John the Baptist at Hutton Conyers. The value of decorated charters in providing dated or datable evidence for illumination has been recognized by Elizabeth Danbury, who first published an illustration of the Hutton Conyers charter.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 80 , Issue 1 , September 2000 , pp. 296 - 302
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2000

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