His daughter Lady Grace Mildmay in her remarkable account of her early life and tuition by Mistress Hamblyn makes it plain that Sir Henry and his wife, Ann Paget, took the education of their children seriously. It is not clear whether the manuscript was already part of the convent's library or came to it through Sir Henry. Sir Henry Sharington (d.1581), whose ownership inscriptions are on the final verso and inside the lower cover, inherited Lacock from his brother Sir William in 1553. CONTEMPORARY CHEMISE BINDING of white leather (extensions trimmed, some restorations). iv + 67 + ii leaves: 1 8, 2 8, 3 8, 4 3(of 4, iv cancelled blank), 5 8, 6 6, 7 8, 8 8, 9 8, 10 2, COMPLETE, catchwords and prickings, endleaves reused part-folios from a 13th-century scholastic text, 20, 25 or 21 lines written in brown ink in a gothic bookhand by two scribes between horizontals and paired verticals ruled in plummet, titles and headings outlined in red, paraphs of texts 1,3 and 4 and initials of text 2 in red. TREATISES IN ANGLO-NORMAN VERSE: opening with WALTER OF BIBBESWORTH (c.1219-c.1270), Le tretiz, with interlineations and side-notes in Middle English, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUMĢ08 x 135mm. TREATISES IN ANGLO-NORMAN VERSE: opening with WALTER OF BIBBESWORTH (c.1219-c.1270), Le tretiz, with interlineations and side-notes in Middle English, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM Acquired by the National Trust in 1944, Lacock Abbey is now familiar to a wide audience, not only to visitors but to filmgoers, for the Cloister and its side-rooms have served as the classrooms of Hogwarts in Harry Potter films. Both books then passed by descent until they reached the present owner. Lots 11 and 12 are the only known survivors from the Abbey library: while it is certain that the Brito, once chained, belonged to the convent at least from the time of its binding, the Bibbesworth may have reached Lacock after the Dissolution through Sir Henry, brother and successor of William Sharington. He demolished the church and converted the conventual buildings into a residence. At the end of January 1539 the sisters were pensioned and dispersed and the sale of the Abbey to William Sharington was completed by 1540. Rarely comprising more than a score of sisters - usually outnumbered by the officers and servants who looked after them - Lacock was generously endowed and continued as a successful and scandal-free community until the Dissolution. MANUSCRIPTS FROM LACOCK ABBEY: PROPERTY OF A LADY, BY DIRECT DESCENT FROM THE ABBEY'S TUDOR OWNERSĮla, daughter and sole heiress of William, earl of Salisbury and widow of William Longespée, natural son of Henry II, founded Lacock as a house of Augustinian canonesses in 1232 and became its first Abbess in 1239.
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