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Feckenham. Documents relating to Feckenham, Worcs.

Reference code
MSS/0922
Title
Feckenham. Documents relating to Feckenham, Worcs.
Date
1586-1682
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Vellum and paper. In a round box, covered in leather, black, lined with fragments of an earlier deed.
Scope and content
Four documents relating to Feckenham, Worcs. As follows:-
(1) Grant under the Great Seal of lands in Feckenham, belonging to St Mary Worcester, to John Clarke and Thomas Hughes, 2 Dec. 1586. Great Seal (fragment) of Elizabeth;-
(2) Grant of toll, pannage, murage and stallage, etc., 18 Nov. 1619. Latin. Great Seal of James I;-
(3) Sequestration of the profits of the living of Feckenham void by the refusal of the last incumbent, Henry Jackson, to subscribe before 24 Aug. 1662, to the Act of Uniformity, 25 Aug. 1662. Latin;-
(4) Account by Henry Smith, constable, of receipts and disbursements of moneys received to maintain the local militia, 16 Oct. 1682.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/922
Archival history
The documents are a sample from the parish chest of Feckenham exhibited by John William Willis-Bund, FSA, JP (further details in Proc., 2nd ser., 18 (1899-1901), 19-21). Found (Nov. 1992) in Box 36 with seal matrices and casts.
Language
Latin; English