Lot 20

Golding family of Belchamp St. Paul, Essex.- A booke wherin is entred and Written divers Dedes of feoffment, Releases, Indentures of sale of lande, and other evidences, wylles, wrightine and notes..., autograph manuscript, 1584

Hammer Price: £2,200

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Golding family of Belchamp St. Paul, Essex.- A booke wherin is entred and Written divers Dedes of feoffment, Releases, Indentures of sale of lande, and other evidences, wylles, wrightine and notes..., concernyng chiefly the messages landes tenements and hereditaments situate lying and being in Paules Belchamp in the countie of Essex. Trulye copied out and agreing verbatim with the originalls. Collected in maner of a Register by the procurement of William Golding Esquier the third day of Januari Anno d[o]m[in]i 1584, title and 58ff., manuscript on paper in a neat secretary hand, final f. (59) torn away along with two following blanks, 11 blank ff., some light damp-staining to lower margin, the odd spot, morocco book label of William Foyle, original vellum, remains of tie, "Essex" in manuscript to upper cover, portion excised from head of lower cover, preserved in morocco chemise, folio, 1584.

⁂ An extensive 16th-century record, in a fine legal hand, of deeds in Latin and English dating from 1297 to 1586 relating to Belchamp St Paul in Braintree, Essex. The Golding family feature prominently; William Golding (d.1587) was the brother of Margery Golding, Countess of Oxford (1526-68) who would marry John deVere at the church in Belchamp St Paul in 1548, giving birth to the poet and courtier Edward deVere (the subject of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship) in 1550.

Arthur Golding (1536-1606) was the half-brother of William and best-known as a translator, especially for his translation of Ovid a book much-prized, and used, by Shakespeare.

Description

Golding family of Belchamp St. Paul, Essex.- A booke wherin is entred and Written divers Dedes of feoffment, Releases, Indentures of sale of lande, and other evidences, wylles, wrightine and notes..., concernyng chiefly the messages landes tenements and hereditaments situate lying and being in Paules Belchamp in the countie of Essex. Trulye copied out and agreing verbatim with the originalls. Collected in maner of a Register by the procurement of William Golding Esquier the third day of Januari Anno d[o]m[in]i 1584, title and 58ff., manuscript on paper in a neat secretary hand, final f. (59) torn away along with two following blanks, 11 blank ff., some light damp-staining to lower margin, the odd spot, morocco book label of William Foyle, original vellum, remains of tie, "Essex" in manuscript to upper cover, portion excised from head of lower cover, preserved in morocco chemise, folio, 1584.

⁂ An extensive 16th-century record, in a fine legal hand, of deeds in Latin and English dating from 1297 to 1586 relating to Belchamp St Paul in Braintree, Essex. The Golding family feature prominently; William Golding (d.1587) was the brother of Margery Golding, Countess of Oxford (1526-68) who would marry John deVere at the church in Belchamp St Paul in 1548, giving birth to the poet and courtier Edward deVere (the subject of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship) in 1550.

Arthur Golding (1536-1606) was the half-brother of William and best-known as a translator, especially for his translation of Ovid a book much-prized, and used, by Shakespeare.

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