MARLBOROUGH. Grant by Juliana Bythck of lands at Trebalvet and Trebythyk, given at Marlborough, 6 May 1398.

MARLBOROUGH. Grant by Juliana Bythck of lands at Trebalvet and Trebythyk, given at Marlborough, 6 May 1398.

In Latin. On vellum, 14 lines on one membrane, 128 x 300mm (rather soiled and worn, with slight loss of legibility; laid down). Armorial seals of Juliana Bythyck and of the town of Marlborough (depicting a castle, lettered '+SIGILL... VILLE DE MARLEBERG', approx. 60mm diameter) in red wax pendant on vellum tags (seal of Marlborough cracked on reverse, tag for Juliana's seal slightly split).

A document with the 14th-century seal of the town of Marlborough: a Cornish widow grants lands in Cornwall to Wiltshire purchasers. Juliana Bythyk, widow of David Trebalvet alias Trosmargh, grants to Robert Tretarll of Cornwall, Richard Lambard of Wiltshire, Richard Colyngbourne, William Weston esquire, Andrew Shawe and John Bridd senior of the same county, all the lands and tenements, meadows, pastures, rents and services given her by Serlo Bythyk, chaplain, in Trebalvet and Trebythyk, previously held by her and her late husband. Juliana appends her seal ‘which is unknown to many’ and has therefore added the seal of the town of Marlborough. The witnesses are Oliver Wyse, Robert Houlond, Thomas Nuwyt, Roger Bythyk, William Onger, Robert Heye, Walter Butte, mayor of Marlborough, Robert Warenner, Thomas Dryper, Peter Baldry, Nicholas Tayllour, William Norhampton, William Castleton, Richard Grombold, Thomas Heose, Robert Stoke and Robert Devenisch.