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Title
Date(s)
- c. 1750 and 1622 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 volume (31 x 20 cm), containing 50 leaves. The print is pasted to the verso of the front free endpaper. Bound, in the words of the sale catalogue, in ‘rich old blue morocco’, with ‘paned and tooled sides’.
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Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
A cutting from a sale catalogue containing a description of this MS is pasted inside the front cover, as is the armorial bookplate of Robert, Earl of Crewe. The catalogue entry dates the MS to about 1750, adding that it is ‘Evidently an Official Copy, made for some special purpose, with Marginal Notes in a law hand writing.’
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Transcript of the will of King Henry VII, with an engraved portrait of him by John Payne from Francis Bacon’s Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh (1622). On the front of the book is stamped ‘Hen. VIIth’s Will’.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Paginated i–iv, 1–96.
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Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Name access points
- Henry VII (1457–1509), King of England (Subject)