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Charter of Hugh de Neville for estates in Denby, West Riding, Yorkshire, to Byland Abbey, in Latin, single sheet document on parchment [England (Yorkshire), middle third of thirteenth century (before 1275)] Single sheet, with 9 long lines in a scrawling English secretarial hand, some areas of weak ink reinforced by near-contemporary hand, seal tag with large brown wax armorial seal of Hugh de Neville (55 by 50mm.), more modern notes on reverse identifying issuer and abbey, as well as Sir Thomas Phillipps number, 85+22 by 232mm., some smudging to text, darkening overall with folds and cockling, but overall fair and presentable, in fitted folding case Byland Abbey was founded in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire as a Savignac house in 1135, but absorbed by the Cistercian order in 1147. By the fourteenth century, it had grown to be one of the leading abbeys of the north on the wealth of the wool trade, and had one of the finest early Gothic churches of Europe. The influential Neville family were among their staunchest patrons, and other parts of the same gift as recorded here, from Hugh de Neville (d. before 1275) to the abbey, are also recorded in two other charters (one with the same seal as this charter) in Yorkshire Deeds, VI, nos. 189-90. This charter re-emerged in modern times in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): his MS. 36227 (this number in ink on the reverse of the present charter). It was sold in his sale at Sothebys, 26 June 1967, lot 589, to Quaritch, and acquired from them approximately 20 years ago by the father of the present owner.