The Painted Seld

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

It appears from the register of Clerkenwell Priory in the British Museum that a grant of rent" de pincta selda " in parochia sancti pancracii juxta vicum fori was made to the priory, C. 1239 (Cott. MS. Faustina B. II. f. 89).


Mentioned in will of Christina la Brune 1290-1 as " Peinteselde " (Ct. H.W. I. 95).

The "painted seld" in Westcheap 1310 (ib. 213).

No further reference.

See Selds.

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