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Charters of Sawley Abbey relating to lands in Bolton by Bowland, Lancashire, in Latin, on vellum
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15 documents, (i) Symon, son of William de Bramton, granting to Sawley Abbey land beside their grange at Hungrill [a farm about a mile north-west of Bolton Church], c.1235-50 (Chartulary, p.88, no.138), 12 lines, 86mm. by 146mm., part of a seal in red wax; (ii) William, son of Simon de Bramton, granting to Sawley Abbey all his and his father’s land in Bolton and confirming his father’s gift, no.(i) above, c.1250-60 (Chartulary, pp.87-8, no.137), 12 lines, 88mm. by 143mm., seal in green wax; (iii) indenture of Matilda, widow of Richard Goldesburgh, giving her Abbey land in Bolton in exchange for her rights over other property in Bolton, c.1257 (Chartulary, pp.96-7, no.151), 14 lines, 112mm. by 185mm., indented top, stained, part of Matilda’s seal in black wax; (iv) indenture of John de Bolton leasing to Sawley Abbey a meadow in Hungrill in exchange for a lease on land at Wybersey and in ‘le Bottes’ by Holden Gate, c.1260-70 (Chartulary, p.101, no.159, and the other half of the same indenture is Pudsay Deeds, pp.123-4, no.45), 13 lines, 93mm. by 152mm., indented top; (v) indenture of H[ugh de Wigehale], Abbot of Sawley, granting lands in Braderode to William [de Blakeburne], rector of Bolton, in exchange for land at Fooden, c.1265-75 (Chartulary, pp.92-3, no.146, and the other half of the same indenture is Pudsay Deeds, p.122, no.43), 14 lines, 95mm. by 152mm., William’s seal in black wax; (vi) quitclaim by John, son of Heck Tempersnape, for rights over lands in Bolton, c.1294 (Chartulary, pp.88-9, no.139), 15 lines, 93mm. by 182mm.; (vii) grant to Sawley Abbey by Roger Tempersnape, son of the above, of all his family’s lands in Bolton except a pasture called Hecke Croft, late thirteenth century (Chartulary, p.92, no.145), 7 lines, 71mm. by 234mm.; (viii) grant to Sawley Abbey by Adam son of William de Malasis of all his ancestral lands in Bolton, late thirteenth century (Chartulary, p.114, no.183), late thirteenth century, 7 lines, 78mm. by 255mm., seal in black wax; (ix) indenture of Richard de Goldesburgh confirming the lease to Sawley Abbey of land in Bolton which Richard de Midhop made in the name of his father, Richard of Goldsburgh, 1307 (Chartulary, p.106, no.167), 13 lines, 87mm. by 216mm., indented top; (x) an inquisition made before the archbishop of York confirming the lease to Sawley Abbey of part of Bolton Manor by Richard de Goldesburgh, c.1309-10, 16 lines, 119mm. by 205mm.; (xi) grant to Sawley Abbey by William le Vavassour of all his lands which Richard de Goldesburgh had been leasing to the Abbey, 1310, 8 lines, 70mm. by 230mm., small equestrian seal in black wax; (xii) quitclaim by Richard son of Richard Mydhop for rights over a path across the Abbey’s land, 1319 (Chartulary, pp.106-7, no.168), 9 lines, 100mm. by 257mm., stained, small seal in black wax; (xiii) agreement between John de Bolton, rector of Bolton Church, over disputed lands of the Abbey at Fulden in Bolton [Fooden, as in no.(v) above], 1324, 12 lines, 92mm. by 223mm., part of a seal in green wax; (xiv) a sixteen-year lease by Sawley Abbey to John de Bolton, 1324, 11 lines, 100mm. by 237mm., indented top, armorial seal in red wax; and (xv) a grant by John de Bolton to Sawley Abbey of the long-disputed land at Fulden, 1344, 6 lines, 60mm. by 217mm., rather faded, fine seal in red wax; all with endorsements, some creased and worn, in a box
Catalogue Note
The Cistercian Abbey of Sawley, or (more correctly) Sallay, was founded in 1148 on the bank of the Ribble river in Yorkshire, almost on the boundary with Lancashire, near Clitheroe. It was suppressed in 1536. Its cartulary of c.1333 is British Library, Harleian MS.112, edited by J. McNulty, The Chartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of Saint Mary of Sallay in Craven (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series, LXXXVII), I, 1933, to which references are given above. All the lands here are in Bolton by Bowland, Lancashire, and many of the transactions and most of the people mentioned can be followed in some detail in R.P. Littledale, The Pudsay Deeds (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series, LVI), 1916. The archive was acquired by the present owner at Christie’s, 9 December 1981, lot 222.