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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to be baptized out of an opinion that baptism is a manumission, and the same thing as if their servants were … in England was not taken by the law of England to be a manumission in enfranchising the villains, so neither shall …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… who shall be deem'd mulattos etc. ; (iii) for the manumission of the wife and children of a free negro man …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the said will, which if refused to be given, the said manumission to be voyd. But there being noe penalty on ye … compell him he is left at his liberty to render every such manumission fruitless, which cutting off all hopes from those … of their duty may at last look for ye reward of a manumission by their masters' will, will make 'em not only …
A New History of London
… so were his demands exorbitant; for beside the general manumission granted by the king to the bondmen, he …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Bears heads erased and muzzled, hanging to his deed of manumission of villains, the latest I have seen. 18 William …
Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean & Chapter of Wells
… paid by John Manyman. 1493, June 16.Confirmation of the manumission of Richard Hawkyns, the bishop's native belonging … for life, with a pension of 20 marks. Confirmation of a manumission by the bishop of John Croker, a native belonging …
Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean & Chapter of Wells
… and chapter. 1501, Sept. 10.Confirmation of letters of manumission from the bishop to John Skorde of Compton …
Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean & Chapter of Wells
… with all his sequela. o. 115 d. The bishop's deed of manumission. o. 116. Ordered that henceforward no stranger …
Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean & Chapter of Wells
… o. 151 d. 1508, July 1.Confirmation of the bishop's manumission of John Fenell, Bon of John Fenell, a native on …