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11. Notification that Henry II has granted the nuns freedom from customs
Date : 1175/9 (Geoffrey Ridel became. bishop of Ely in 1174, and Henry was not in
England until May 1175; Richard de Lucy died in July 1179). MS. : Cartulary, fos. iv.—I Ir.
ITEM DE CONFIRMATIONE REGIS HENRICI.
Henricus a dei gratia rex Angl' et dux Normann' et Aquit' et comes And' iustic' vicecomitibus et omnibus ministris suis et. nominatim portuum maris
Anglie et Norm' salutem.
Precipio vobis quod omnes moniales de fonte clericorum. et omnes res earum quas ipse vel homines sui assecurare poterunt ad vsum earum esse sint quiete per totam b [fo. 'Iv.] terram meam infra ciuitatem et extra de theloneo et passagio et pontagio et de omni alia consuetudine.
Et prohibeo ne quis super hoc eas inde disturbet vel vexet super forisfacturam meam.
Test'. Gaufrido Elyensi episcopo. Ricardo de Luci. Radulfo filio St ephani Camerario. Apud Westmonasterium.
a written twice in MS.
b At the foot of fo. i Ir., prima carta has been written at a later date with a plummet. NOTE: Confirmation on 20 March 1337 (Cal. Chart., iv. 398) assures' freedom from
customs, perhaps in response to the request for this on the ground of oppression by taxes contained in P.R.O., Ancient Petition 7837. The original of the charter confirmed in 1337 is Brit. Mus., Topham Charter 26. Its probable date is 1175, as the witnesses are the same as those in no. 7 above. The document transcribed in the cartulary in the place of Topham Carter 26 seems to have been issued in pursuance about the same time. Together with nos. I
t At Islingtou, ; At Kingston, Cambridg9shirp,
and 8 it was confirmed on zo March 1381 and 14 Sept. 1401, see Cal. of Pat. Rolls, 1377-81, p. 602, and 1399-1401, p. 541. |