Copy of the will of Henry VIII
Reference code
MSS/0249
Title
Copy of the will of Henry VIII
Date
c. 1547
Level of description
item
Extent and format
ff. vi + 8.
Small folio.
Cloth binding, purple. Original vellum covers, fols. iv, v, formed from a leaf of a 15th-century missal.
Small folio.
Cloth binding, purple. Original vellum covers, fols. iv, v, formed from a leaf of a 15th-century missal.
Scope and content
In the hand of John Godsalve (Clerk of the Signet before Jan. 1531/2, afterwards Comptroller of the Mint; d. 1556). Initials of John Godsalve, fol. 8v, and signatures, fols. iv, v. For the text of the will see T. Fuller, The Church-History of Britain, III (1845 ed.), 214-29.
Creator
Henry VIII (1491-1547), King of England and Ireland
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/249
Archival history
Discovered by Samuel Woodward, geologist and antiquary (1790-1838) among old deeds of the Bedingham estate, Norfolk, and presented to him by Clement Unshank. Note by Woodward, Norwich, 24 July 1837, fol. iii verso, and references, fol. vi, to the abridged publication of the will by Sir N. H. Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, I (1826), 37-44; Woodward has marked in blue passages not printed by Nicolas.