Lot 2036 , Letters Patent to Philip Lovell, gentleman, and Thomas Lovell of property at Skelton in Yorkshire, late the abbey of St Mary in York; 14 May 1545

Letters Patent to Philip Lovell, gentleman, and Thomas Lovell of property at Skelton in Yorkshire, late the abbey of St Mary in York; 14 May 1545 The Crown to Philip Lovell, gentleman, and Thomas Lovell for £107 10s 0d paid to the treasurer of the Court of Augmentations

8 messuages and 14 bovates of land with a rent of 4s 7d in lieu of hens and eggs in Skelton near York, occupied by Robert Camas, William Symson and his wife Joan, Peter Welles, William Wylson, Laurence Robynson, John Coltman, Gamas’s wife, Thomas Dobson late Roger Curwen, with the woods and underwoods on the premises, all valued at £5 15s 0½d a year
To hold of the Crown in chief by the service of a twentieth part of a knight’s fee by a rent of 11s 6½d a year
Authorised by [Richard] Southwell, [receiver of the Court of Augmentations]
Enrolled before Hugh Fuller, auditor [of the Court of Augmentations]
Examined by B[artholemew] Traheron, on vellum, 57 x 84cm
Substantial fragments of the great seal of Henry VIII

In the Taxation of 1291 the properties of St Mary’s are valued at £758 3s 4d, and at the Dissolution the abbey was worth no less an annual sum than £2,085 1s 5¾d. In 1539, the house was surrendered by the abbot, William Thornton otherwise Dent and fifty monks; the abbot received a pension of 400 marks [£266 6s 8d].
At some time between 1556 and 1558 Philip Lovell was sued in Chancery by the receiver of Crown revenues in the diocese of York in respect of arrears of rents and tithes in Skelton (TNA C 1/1459/17-18). In 1595 Edward Beseley of Skelton proceeded against Philip’s grandson Thomas Lovell in the court Exchequer concerning the ownership of land near York (TNA E 134/37Eliz/Hil21).
Bartholomew Traheron (c1510–1558?), protestant writer and reformer, returned to England at the beginning of 1539 and by early March was in the service of Thomas Cromwell. He is recorded as writer of letters patent under the great seal and examiner of letters patent between April 1547 and December 1549, but his examination of this patent of 14 May 1545 suggests earlier service in that office. From December 1549 to October 1553 he was keeper of the king’s library with a salary of 20 marks, while in February 1550 he was appointed a tutor to the young Henry Brandon, second duke of Suffolk. Dean of Chichester 1551-1553, he became a canon of St George’s Chapel Windsor on 10 January 1553.
£300-500

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