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RefNo CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/7
PreviousNumbers L 64 (Norris); L 9 (late 19th c)
Title Grant
Date [1233x1237]
Description From: Edmund of Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury To: the sacrist of Canterbury Cathedral Priory The church of St Mary Aldermary ('Aldermariechurch'), London, as a benefice worth 6 marks a year, for the fabric of the cathedral church. Reserving a payment of 8s 4d, payable by the rector of the church to the priory treasurer as a rent ('census'). The sacrist shall present a suitable priest ('persona') to the church when it is vacant and the archbishop will admit him, as he admitted Robert the chaplain ('capellanus') at the presentation of R the sacrist, signed with a cross ('signatus cruce'), and institute him into physical possession. No date. [Date: Edmund's dates as archbishop and date of confirmation by pope Gregory IX.] [Seal reunited with document on the basis of the entry in Bunce's index of seals, cited below.] Witnesses: Mgr Nicholas de Bureford, official of the court of Canterbury; Mgr John de offinton'; Mgr Robert de Stafford; Mgr Aaron; Henry de Welles, clerk Endorsed with description and '. Rudham Bygod .' in late 13th cent hands.
Language Latin
PhysicalDescription Parchment, 1m, seal, small blob of red wax on plica. Seal reunited with document May 2004
RelatedMaterial Registered version: CCA-DCc-Register/B, ff270v-271r Confirmation by pope Gregory IX: CCA-DCc-Register/B, f272r Seal noted in Bunce's index of seals, p149
PublnNote Summarised in B W Kissan, 'The London Deanery of Arches', Transactions of London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (NS8, 1939), p209
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