Patent lease of Rushen Monastery and Douglas Priory to Knightly and Spencer, 1606
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- Sources
- Name
- Patent lease of Rushen Monastery and Douglas Priory to Knightly and Spencer, 1606
- Description
- A transcription of a Crown patent (Letters Patent) leasing the former monasteries and priories of Rushen and Douglas on the Isle of Man to Sir Thomas Leigh Knightly and Thomas Spencer for forty years, with reserved rights over woods, wardships, mines and quarries. This document illustrates early modern Crown property management on Man and the post-Reformation disposition of ecclesiastical lands.
- Date
- 17 March 1606
- Related To
- King James I
- Type
- Financial Data
- Collection
- The Stanley Lordship
- Type
- Primary Source Transcription
- Date Created
- 1606-03-17
- Creator
- King James I (via Letters Patent)
- Audience
- Sir Thomas Leigh Knightly and Thomas Spencer, Esquire
- Identifier
- Patent Rolls, 3 Jas. I
- Language
- English