ID	Date	Source	Lot No.	Text	Surnames
1	1640	Dominic Winter 7 Mar 2002	260	Document on paper dated 1640, being the descent of Sampson Sheffield of Seaton, Rutland, plaintiff in a Court of Chivalry case, written in a calligraphic hand and showing four generations of the family, top left hand corner removed affecting two of the names	Sheffield
2	1550/1	Dominic Winter 2 & 3 Oct 2002	861	Fine and historically important Royal Charter under the Great Seal, dated May 20th, 1550/51, being the lease of land in Rutland which had been seized by Henry VIII during the dissolution of the Monasteries, twenty-seven lines in latin on a single leaf of vellum, witnessed by Richard Sackvyle, Knight, in excellent fresh condition, with a large portion (approximately 90%) of the Great Seal of Edward VI in brown wax, showing on the obverse the boy King sitting on the throne of England in full regalia. Documents of Edward VI the weakling boy king of the Tudors are perhaps the rarest of all British Royal documents. The present Charter grants a lease to Michael Rayne of Hambleton (now a village surrounded by Rutland Water) for the Rectory of Whissendine (a village just south east of Melton Mowbray which still exists under the same name). The Rectory and its lands had originally been leased to Rayne in 1534 by John Prior of the Monastery of the Blessed Mary at Sempringham in Lincolnshire. The importance of this document is further enhanced in that the witness Richard Sackville, was the cousin of Anne Boleyn.	Sackvyle	Rayne	Prior	Boleyn