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Notification of the King’s confirmation of possessions and liberties to Canonsleigh Priory

Identity

B74

Title

Notification of the King’s confirmation of possessions and liberties to Canonsleigh Priory

Beneficiary

Canonsleigh Priory (Institutions)

Date of issue

10 May 1201

Place of issue

Portchester (Places)

Sources

B = BL ms. Harley 3660 (Canonsleigh cartulary), fo.75r, s.xiv in.

Printed

(from B) The Cartulary of Canonsleigh Abbey: Harleian MS. no. 3660: a Calendar, ed. V. C. M. London (Torquay, 1965), 51-2 no.141

Comment

Transcription
Calendar

Confirmation of a charter issued by King John when he was count of Mortain, granting Canonsleigh Priory the rents of four men in Allison, namely half a mark from Osbert of Allison, 6 shilings and 10 pence from Edwin of Allison, 30 pence from Elliot of Allison, and 32 pence from Alfred Stiward, and also 16 pence from the waste of the same vill. Witnessed by William bishop of London, John bishop of Norwich, Geoffrey fitz Peter earl of Essex, Robert of Thornham. Given by the hand of Simon archdeacon of Wells at Porchester, 10 May in the third year of the reign.

Charters not found in surviving rolls