Cestui que
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Cestui que is a historical Law French term denoting beneficiary status in a trust.
Cistercian Buckland Abbey, established on land near Yelverton, Devon, donated by Amice de Clare, Countess of Devon in 1278
St. Mary's Abbey, York, a Benedictine monastery dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539
Shakespeare Testament
Domesday Book
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Domesday Book is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by the Lati
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…ad opus sancti illius ("for the use of its saint"). Mercian books in the ninth century convey land ad opus monachorum ("for the use of monks"). The Domesday Book of 1086 refers to geld or money, sac and soc held in ad opus regis ("for the use of the king"), or in reginae ("of the queen") or vicecomitis ("of the…
Domesday Book: an engraving published in 1900. Great Domesday (the larger volume) and Little Domesday (the smaller volume), in their 1869 bindings, lie on their older "Tudor" bindings.
Great Domesday in its "Tudor" binding: a wood-engraving of the 1860s
The Domesday Chest, the German-style iron-bound chest of c. 1500 in which Domesday Book was kept in the 17th and 18th centuries
Entries for Croydon and Cheam, Surrey, in the 1783 printed edition of Domesday Book