Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 7307
Doeskin bag
Doeskin bag
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The inscription reads:
Particule compoti Henrici Fylongley nuper vicecomitis comitatus Warr' et Leyc', videlicet, de auxilio vicecomitis, finibus, amerciamentis, exitis et proficiis comitatum predictorum a festo Sancti Michaelis anno xxxvimo Regis nunc Henrici Sexti, usque idem festum tunc proximum sequentem, scilicet per unum annum integrum ut infra
Warr'
Leyc'
The bag was used as a container for a compotus roll belonging to Henry Fillongley/Fylongley, in his capacity as Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, concerning the fines, amercements, exits and profits of those counties, from Michaelmas 36 Henry VI (29 September 1457) until the same feast-day the following year. The roll itself is not known to survive.
Physical Description
Condition
Hand(s)
Written in a large, clear secretary script by a single hand. The text is now faded, and without ornament.
Accompanying Material
A (not wholly accurate) diplomatic and an expanded transcription, and translation, by the Cambridgeshire antiquary William Mortlock Palmer (1866-1939) survives inside the bag and has been digitised. The inscriptions in pencil on the front and rear are by the hand of H.L. Pink .
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Henry Fillongley/Fylongley (fl. c. 1440-1450) : courtier, sheriff and between 1453 and 1457 Keeper of the Great Wardrobe of Henry VI. At some point during the 1440s, Fillongley was in possession of the Dunmows manor house, which stood on a rectangular moated site at Hall Orchard, on the outskirts of Fulbourn, near Cambridge. The earthworks for the moat survive, but the house was demolished in the 18th century. See A.F. Wareham and A.P.M. Wright, A history of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, Victoria County History (2022), vol. 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (North-Eastern Cambridgeshire) and Aileen Connor, 'Investigations on a Medieval Moated Site at Hall Orchard, Fulbourn: An Archaeological Training Dig' (Fulbourn: Archaeological Field Unit, Cambridgeshire County Council, 2006), p. 6.
Presented to Cambridge University Library by Miss C.E. Parsons , Little Abington, Cambs., in December 1949.
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