| Description | Indenture, dated 24 May 1604, between (1) Sir George Gifforde, his wife Eleanor, and Sir Thomas Throckmorton and (2) Sir Thomas Fitzhugh and Thomas Overbury (son of Nicholas Overbury of Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire), conveying an interest in the rectory or parsonage of Weston-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, including Overbury's signature. |
| AdminHistory | One of the signatories, Sir Thomas Overbury, was a courtier and poet who in 1613 was the victim of an intrigue in which his opposition to the proposed marriage between Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester, and the divorced Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, resulted in his imprisonment in the Tower of London and his murder there by poisoning. |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |