muniment-room

Court# (or Langton's Chapter House), which is now a muniment-room.

Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Hubert C. Corlette

In the muniment-room of the church were several coffers, containing old papers and parchments in black letter, some of which were supposed to be of value.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

The proceedings of the Court are entered in journals called "Repertories," which are kept in the muniment-room.

The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges William Ferneley Allen

[8] The muniment-room is a large low-roofed apartment over the beautiful north porch of Redcliffe Church, which was constructed by Canynge.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

Canynge, who was remembered for his philanthropy; he had altered and improved the church of St. Mary, and had built the muniment-room: the reputed poems, some of which were said to have been written by himself, and others by the monk Rowlie, Chatterton declared he had found in the coffers.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

It is approached through the muniment-room, and has been popularly known as the "Lollard's Prison."

Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Hubert C. Corlette

In the building of the sacristy, library, synod-hall, muniment-room, the purchase in fee-simple of the site, and the interior decorations and altars, he has spent more than £50,000 on what is now known as the National Cathedral.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

This old seat of the Verneys had another secret chamber in the middle storey, entered through a trap-door in "the muniment-room" at the top of the house.

Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. Allan Fea 1908

The gate-house contained a sitting-room and three bedrooms (one hardly bigger than a box-cupboard); but a building adjoined it which had been the old Franciscans 'refectory, though now it was divided by common planking into two floors, the lower serving for a feoffee office, while the upper was supposed to be a muniment-room, in charge of the feoffees' clerk.

The Ship of Stars Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The letters that the two looked over together in that wainscoted parlour at Booth's Edge lie now in an iron case in a certain muniment-room.

Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892