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Order NumberCCA-DCc/ChAnt/A/189C
TitleLetter
Date2 Nov 1295
DescriptionFrom: Robert Winchelsey, archbishop of Canterbury
To: the prior and chapter of Canterbury Cathedral Priory

Relates to appeals by rectors and vicars who were excommunicated by the priory acting sede vacante. Inviting them to appear before him, wherever he may be in his city, diocese or province, on 1 Dec.
Given at Aldington [Kent].

Endorsed with address, 'dd' twice and description in contemporary hands.
Extent1 doc
Physical DescriptionParchment, 1m, slits for sealing closed, traces of applied seal, stitching holes at head and foot, pasted to paper at right edge
LanguageLatin
AccessStatusOpen
Open
Related MaterialRelated notes by W P Blore: CCA-U91/237
Publication NoteTranscribed in R Graham (ed), Registrum Roberti Winchelsey, vol ii (Oxford, 1956), pp1310-11
Noted in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p429

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