Scope and Contents: An unidentified type of legal document (obligation?) regarding a certain Henrie and Edward & Andrew Morris. Text appears to be identical on recto and verso.
Ms. fragment.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Script: In a 17th century English hand (same hand on recto and verso).
Origin: Location based on script. -- Date from verso: "Anno g dmi 1683" [in a later hand]; written date partially lost: "die februarij ... [an?]gli xv. vicessimo quinto" [i.e. 25 Charles II (1684)?].
Provenance: Taken from the binding of IU shelfmark IUA07269: Thomas Johnston. Christs watch-word (London : Printed by W. I[ones] for Iohn Bartlet, and are to be solde at his shoppe at the signe of the Golden Cuppe in Cheapeside, 1630); Acquired from Norman, 27 August 1940.
Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 239.
A certain Henrie, heirs, administrators or assigns mentioned in l. 2 of recto. -- Edw. and Andrew Morris mentioned in l. 1 of verso.
Partial autograph in lower-right corner of verso: "Andrew Mo..."; Approximately 1/4 of fragment missing along right margin. -- Text on recto partially worn away.
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