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57. Notification by Gilbert Foliot, bishop of London, that he had instituted his clerk, M. Walter of Witney, to the church of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, on presentation by the king, whose right as patron had been fully proved.1
Date : July 1183 to 1184.1
MSS. : A. 39/1424 (original) ; Liber A, fo. 5b (No. 52).
G. dei gratia London' episcopus . omnibus sancte matris ecclesie filiis per episcopatum London' constitutis salutem . gratiam . 7 benedictionem. Frequens est . ut elabatur a memoria quod a presentibus agitur nisi litterarum apicibus ad posteritatis noticiam commendetur. Proinde uniuersitati uestre presenti scripto notificamus . nos ecclesiam sancti Leonardi de Soresdic' 2 quam contra canonicos sancte Trinitatis London' . ad domini regis pertinere donationem in carta sua publice ostensum est . 7 plenarie comprobatum presentatione domini regis . magistro Waltero de clerico nostro dedisse . 7 concessisse . ipsumque in ea sollempniter constituisse. Quod quia firmum 7 stabile inposterum esse uolumus pagina presenti . 7 nostri appositione sigilli . confirmamus. Testibus his . Galtero de Constanciis episcopo Lincoln'. Ricardo El37ensi archidiacono domini regis thesaurario. Radulfo archidiacono Hereford' domini regis sigillario. Radulfo de Diceto. decano sancti Pauli. Ricardo Brit'. Gaufrido filio Petri Am aurico Dispensario. Ailwardo camerario. Roberto Folet. Radulfo de Chilton'. Gilleberto Banastre . canonicis sancti Pauli. Waltero filio Walteri. Iohanne Witeng'. Thoma Briton'. Roberto Foliot . clericis.
Endorsed : confirmacio ecclesie de Sores' [late i3th century]. 0 f xlvit°. Size : 61/2" x 31/2. Fragment of episcopal seal attached to tag.
1 Walter de Coutances was then bishop of Lincoln, 1183-4. The earlier history of the church adds interest to this reference to the plea touching the advowson. Robert de Sigillo, bishop of London, had granted the church of Shoreditch to the priory of Holy Trinity—a grant confirmed by Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, before 1150. During the episcopate of Richard de Belmeis II, the priory was deprived of their right by a certain layman, Baldwin. L.C.C. Survey of London, Vol. VIII (The Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch), p. 91.
2 Liber A: Sordig. |