"Probatio Aetatis" of William de Septvans, from the Surrenden Collection.
- Author/Editor
- L. B. L. [Lambert B. Larking].
- Title
- "Probatio Aetatis" of William de Septvans, from the Surrenden Collection.
- Published
- L. B. L. [Lambert B. Larking]. "'Probatio Aetatis' of William de Septvans, from the Surrenden Collection." Archaeologia Cantiana 1 (1858): 124-36.
- Review
- Larking translates from Latin and Anglo-Norman French the legal documents related to the case of the underage heir William de Septvans the younger, "evidently a youth of weak mind and reckless habits" (125), whose father's lands in Kent (including the manor of Aldington) were held of Edward III "in capite," and "alienated" into "the hands of most unscrupulous and crafty plunderers," one of whom was John Gower. Also translated is an excerpt from Froissart, describing the capture of the Count d'Eu and Guisnes, Constable of France, and the Count de Tancarville in 1346. [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 44.1]
- Date
- 1858
- Gower Subjects
- Biography of Gower