Sentence examples for of the Muniments from inspiring English sources

Keeper of the Muniments.

In Bath, De Quincey was deeply affected by the unusual story of Thomas Chatterton, a teen-age poet from nearby Bristol who had found dusty medieval documents in the muniment room of his parish church and, his imagination ignited, invented the figure of Thomas Rowley, a fifteenth-century blind monk and poet.

It is likely that, as at Netley's great sister house of Fountains Abbey, the chamber above the warming house was the muniment room, where the abbey's charters, records and title deeds, as well as those of local lords, were kept.

"I was turning over some dusty relics – old parchment deeds, faded stiff church-vestments, seals and crosses, that repose in an oak press in the Muniment-room, – there I came upon a tortoise-shell at the back of the shelf," he wrote in 1887.

Nearby was the Muniment Room in which the Spencer family records were kept, described as a "musty apartment" which contained over 500 years of history, from medieval household accounts to letters from Jacobeans and accounts of Victorian house parties.

The library's collection is in three parts: early documents, housed in the Muniment Room; the collection predating 1800, housed in the Chained Library; and the post-1800 collection, housed in the Reading Room.

The Bird Room, between the staircase and the drawing room, contains a collection of muniments.

During the period between the contract and the conveyance, the buyer typically obtains financing for the purchase while the seller obtains evidence, based on the public record or on his own muniments of title, that he has merchantable title to the property.

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