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Mandate to the King’s reeve and ministers at Dover that the King has pardoned no part of the toll owing to the monks of Dover Priory

Identity

B34

Title

Mandate to the King’s reeve and ministers at Dover that the King has pardoned no part of the toll owing to the monks of Dover Priory

Beneficiary

Dover Priory (Institutions)

Date of issue

17 June 1199

Place of issue

Shoreham, West Sussex, England (Places)

Sources

B = Lambeth Palace Library ms. 241 (Dover cartulary) fos.31v-32r (30v-31r), s.xiv.

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Transcription

Iohannes Dei gratia rex Anglie dominus Hibernie dux Norman(nie) Aquit(anie) et com(es) Andeg(auie) prepositis et ministris suis de Douorr’ salutem.  Sciatis quod nemini perdonamus illam partem de theloneo que pertinet ad monachos sancti Martini de Douorr’ nisi tantummodo illam partem que ad nos ipsos pertinet de dominio nostro, quia elemosinam sancti Martini nolumus diminuere sicut littere patentes domini et patris nostri Henr(ici) reg(is) testantur.  Test(ibus) H(uberto) Cantuar’ archiepiscopo cancellar(io) nostro apud Shorham septimodecimo die Iunii

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Notification that the king has pardoned to nobody that part of the toll that pertains to the monks of St Martin of Dover, except that part that pertains to the king from his demesne, because he does not wish to diminish the alms due to the church.

Charters not found in surviving rolls