Margaret Beaufort, letter to the Mayor of Coventry
22 August [c. 1500]
University Library, MS Add. 7592
Paper, 167 x 270 mm (80 x 194 mm), 1 f.
This document, a letter addressed by Lady Margaret to the Mayor of Coventry, is a rare witness of her signature and a testimony to the public role she played. It concerns a complaint by a burgess named Owen over the fact that the master of the Trinity Guild in Coventry owed him a sum of money. The Countess peremptorily asked the Mayor to call the two parties before him and ‘fully investigate the quarrel between them’ and then to settle the matter ‘in keeping with good conscience and the justice of the King’s laws’.
Margaret Beaufort, letter to the Mayor of Coventry
22 August [c. 1500]
University Library, MS Add. 7592
Paper, 167 x 270 mm (80 x 194 mm), 1 f.
This document, a letter addressed by Lady Margaret to the Mayor of Coventry, is a rare witness of her signature and a testimony to the public role she played. It concerns a complaint by ‘oon Owen, burchis of the Citie ther’ (‘one Owen, burgess of the city there’) about the fact that the master of the Trinity Guild in Coventry owed him a sum of money. The Countess peremptorily asked the Mayor to call the two parties before him and ‘groundely texamyne the variaunce betwixt theim’ (‘fully investigate the quarrel between them’) and then to settle the matter ‘as to you shall seme to accorde with right good coscience and the quitie of the kinges lawes’ (‘in keeping with good conscience and the justice of the King’s laws’). This document entered the University Library collection in 1960, purchased from Maggs Bros. Ltd.
