9
1684 & 1696 indentures, Carlow & Kildare.
Estimate:
€100 - €150
Starting Bid:
€20
Timed Auction
The Eclectic Collector
Size
20 by 30in. (50.8 by 76.2cm)
Description
Description: Manuscript indenture on vellum dated 1684, 'Exemplification off the Recovery off Rathegeragh [Co. Carlow] .. sufferd by .. Colclough .. ano 1684.' Large folded vellum manuscript with elaborate heading, apparently in legal Latin, large seals (fragmentary) attached. With a second vellum manuscript dated 27 April 1696, Margaret Leigh of the Citty of Dublin Widow and Robert Leigh the younger of Grays Inn .. Rt Honble William Lord Viscount Dongan of Clane .. Christopher Ussher of the Citty of Dublin .. lands in Kildare .. Large folded vellum sheet with seal and signatures. Surviving Irish legal documents dating from the troubled 17th century are rare.
Condition
Folded, some edge tears, very good for their age.
