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Mandate to the justiciar and barons of the Exchequer to respect the King’s grant to Bury St Edmunds Abbey of 10 marks each year at the Exchequer

Identity

B166

Title

Mandate to the justiciar and barons of the Exchequer to respect the King’s grant to Bury St Edmunds Abbey of 10 marks each year at the Exchequer

Beneficiary

Bury St Edmunds Abbey (Institutions)

Date of issue

18 December 1203

Place of issue

Bury St Edmunds (Places)

Sources

B = C 52/26 (Cartae Antiquae Roll BB) no.5, s.xiii in.

Printed

Comment

Cf. RC, 114b, to which this is the follow-up mandate.

Transcription

Ioh(ann)es Dei gratia rex Angl(ie) etc dominus Hibern(ie) dux Nom(annie) Aquit(anie) comes And(egauie) dilectis et fidelibus suis iustic(iario) et thesaurario et ceteris baron(ibus) de scacc(ario) salutem.  Sciatis quod dedimus abbati et conuentui sancti Admund(i) decem marc(as) annuas ad scacc(arium) nostrum percipiendas ad reperationem feretri sancti Admund(i) propter quendam saphirum et unum rebeum quos obtuleramus predicto martiri et quos ipsi tradiderunt nob(is) habendos tota vita nostra, ita quod reuertantur ad locum illum post obit(um) nostrum, et ideo vob(is) mandamus quod decem marc(as) annuatim eis interim reddatis ad scaccarium Pasch(e).  T(este) I(ohanne) Norwic’ episcopo apud Sanctum Aemund(um) xviii. die Decembr(is) anno regni nostri quinto.

Calendar

Notification that the king has granted to Bury St Edmunds Abbey ten marks each year at the exchequer for repairing the bier of St Edmund, because the saphire and ruby that he had offered to the martyr the abbot and monks have returened to the king to hold for his lifetime, to be returned to that place after the king’s death. Order to deliver the ten marks annually at the exchequer in the Easter term.    

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