Response to Quo Warranto interrogations regarding Torksey, Lincs.
Reference code
MSS/0272
Title
Response to Quo Warranto interrogations regarding Torksey, Lincs.
Date
mid 16th century
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
Vellum; ff. iv + 43.
Folio.
Original leather binding (rebacked), brown, with remains of clasps. An earlier fragment (canon law, glossed), used as a bookmark, fol. iv. Signatures, 1660, fol. ii.
Folio.
Original leather binding (rebacked), brown, with remains of clasps. An earlier fragment (canon law, glossed), used as a bookmark, fol. iv. Signatures, 1660, fol. ii.
Scope and content
Response to Quo Warranto interrogations, Temp. Edw. I, conc. the liberties, devises, customs and usages of Torksey, Lincs.; English translation. References in the preamble (fol. 1v) to 'Lord Robert of Baland' as sheriff of Lincoln (=?Robert de Chadworth, sheriff, 1285, 1287), and to Devorguila, Lady of Torksey (d. 1290; widow of John de Baliol, d. 1269). Copy of a record of beating the bounds, 1344, with many personal names, fol. 18v. Painted coats of arms of Pole (fol. ii verso) and Neville (fol. iii), the latter with initials 'W. N.', and the date 1567.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/272
MS 272
MS 272