| Description | Party: Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury
Defining the repective rights of the archbishop and the archdeacon to probate jurisdiction in the city and diocese of Canterbury. This depends on where an individual lived and had property, and on whether he or she was of the nobility. Also defining probate procedure when the deceased had property within the jurisdictions of Wingham, Maidstone and other named religious houses, or within parks and castles, or on the sea or the seashore, or when he or she died outside the province. Also defining the archbishop's prerogative in probate business. Also specifying apparitors to be employed by the archbishop, the commissary-general of Canterbury, and the archdeacon. Approved and sealed by Thomas Chillenden, prior, and Richard Clifford, archdeacon.
Given at Archbishop's Palace, Canterbury (Kent).
Endorsed with contemporary description. |