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D77 - Gresley family of Drakelow - [12th-20th cent]
1 - Title Deeds
5 - Catton
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D77/1/5/13
Former Reference
D77/1/Jeayes 599
Title
Covenant between Margaret, Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII., and Roger Horton of Catton, Esq.
Date
[18 Oct 1502]
Description
Whereby the latter agrees that his son shall be married to such "gentilwoman as her grace or her assignes shall thynke convenient," and that he shall deliver him to the said Princess, "and to cause hym by the advice of the said princess to be founde at Scole or in Courte to lerne the kynges laws or th' other wyse as the seyd princess shall avice from tyme to tyme," in return for which the Princess agrees to support the said Roger's title to recover any manors, lands, etc., in the realm of England, either by "peticion, accion, sewte, entre, or otherwyes."
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Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Gresley family of Drakelow
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