muniment room

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muniment house, (Brit.) muniment room

A secure structure or area for storing and displaying important documents, official seals, etc.

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The Muniment Room was Grandtather's Holy of Holies.

Marlborough country: Charles Spencer tells how the victories of his great ancestor John Churchill have always fascinated him

62 Westminster Abbey Muniment Room, Accounts of the Fraternity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, 1487-90, 1505-8.

Music and musicians of early Tudor Westminster

Sayce who looked after the records, `There is unfortunately no published calendar of the contents of our muniment room; indeed there is no calendar of them at all except a very imperfect one in MS compiled more than a hundred years ago.'

OUR GENEALOGICAL FOREBEARS

4), via mid-eighteenth century and George IV seat furniture and console tables, to the painted breakfront bookcases (possibly by Adam) in the Muniment Room. Most extraordinary of all is a colossal pair of tortoiseshell and ivory globular vases and covers, probably made as exhibition pieces (Fig.

National Trust acquisitions 2002-2003

As a history student here he was regarded as one of the best of his generation and it was his interest in history that led him, together with his long-time friend, the chain-smoking bibliophile Bob Owen Croesor, to trawl through the muniment rooms of the landed estates of North Wales; those rooms where important titledeeds and other estate documents were stored.

A UNIVERSITY VIEW

As a starting point, there is the increasing sense of Anne as her own reader, but also as projecting a readership that begins with her family but extends well beyond that point, so that these writings are quite different from the usual family memorials and record books we might find in the period tucked away in the muniment rooms and attics of great houses.

Anne Clifford: writing for oneself, writing for others

The pioneer here was James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, who spent parts of twenty years, from the 1850s through the 1870s, visiting record repositories and muniment rooms throughout England.

Shakespeare on the road: tracking the tours with the REED web project

Bills from Oxford goldsmiths, dug out of college muniment rooms, show that most were acting simply as retailers for London firms.

Treasured inheritance: six hundred years of Oxford college silver make a splendid and instructive exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum