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Notification of the King’s grant to Master William of Leicester of an annual pension of 30 marks

Identity

B187

Title

Notification of the King’s grant to Master William of Leicester of an annual pension of 30 marks

Beneficiary

Master William of Leicester (People)

Date of issue

2 May 1206

Place of issue

Windsor (Places)

Sources

B = C 52/25 (Cartae Antiquae Roll AA) no.42, s.xiii in.

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Comment

Transcription

<Iohannes Dei> gratia rex Angl(ie) etc.  Sciatis nos intuitu Dei et ob amore k(arissi)mi nepotis nostri domini O(ttonis) Roman(orum) regis illustris dedisse, concessisse et presenti carta nostra confirmasse magistro Willelmo de Leicestr’ clerico eiusdem reg(is) trigi<nta> marc(as) singul(is) annis percipiendas ad scacc(a)r(ium) nostrum Lond’, scil(icet) quindecim marc(as) ad scacc(a)r(ium) sancti Michael(is) et quindecim marc(as) ad scacc(a)r(ium) Pasche quousque ei in certo beneficio ecclesiastico usque ad estimationem quinquaginta marc(arum) redditus prouiderimus.  T(estibus) dominis I(ohanne) Norwic’ et H(erberto) Sarr’.  Dat’ per manum I(ocelini) Bath’ electi apud Winleshoram ii. die Maii anno regni nostri septimo.

Calendar

Notification that that the king, for love of his nephew Otto, king of the Romans, has granted to master William of Leicester, Otto’s clerk, of an annual pension of 30 marks at the Exchequer pending the grant of an ecclesiastical benefice worth 40 marks

Charters not found in surviving rolls