Letter of the Barons to Pope Boniface VIII
Reference code
MSS/0519
Title
Letter of the Barons to Pope Boniface VIII
Date
Late 18th century copy
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Vellum roll.
Scope and content
Copy of the letter of the Barons to Pope Boniface VIII, answering the Papal claim to feudal sovereignty; late 18th century. At the foot drawings of their seals, with the arms in colour, omitting the equestrian obverses and some details, eg crests, on the reverses. For further details see Lord Howard de Walden, Some feudal Lords and their Seals (1904; based on the two extant copies of the letter in the PRO).
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/519
Archival history
Probably the roll, said to have been given by the late John Thorpe, FSA, exhibited to SA, 24 Jan. 1793; cf. Minute Book XXIV, p. 366.