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9-2014
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Medieval History | Medieval Studies | Other Arts and Humanities
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Porter, D. (2014, September 01). Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 211 - Roger Bigod deed.. [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/48
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Summary:
Written between 1201 and 1205, in Latin. Record of 3 grants of land in Suffolk by Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, to the sons of magister William de Risinges (Walter, Simon, Eustace, and Peter), for which Bigod received a riding horse, a windmill with a rood of land (possibly the earliest mention of a windmill in Suffolk), and an annual fee. Written in 17 long lines, in a chancery script, with the central part of a wax seal still remaining on a parchment tag. The remnant of the seal shows part of an equestrian figure on one side and a heraldic lion on the other.