| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/A/193A |
| Title | Letter |
| Date | 9 Jan 1310 |
| Description | From: Robert Winchelsey, archbishop of Canterbury
To: Robert de Orford, bishop of Ely
Asking him to provide a benefice for Walter de Beccles, clerk. By custom, newly-consecrated bishops have a duty to promote a clerk selected by the archbishop. With penalty of excommunication.
Note at foot that the bishop had died before the letter reached him. [For this custom, known as the 'archbishop's option', see I J Churchill, Canterbury Administration, vol i (London, 1933), p350.]
Given at Otford [Kent]. |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m, stitching holes at foot, split leather cord sewn at ends to head, pasted to paper at right edge |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Copies | Digitised |
| Publication Note | Transcribed in J B Sheppard, Literae Cantuarienses, vol i (London, Rolls Series, 1887), pp33-4
Noted in J R Wright, The Church and the English Crown (Toronto, 1980), p66n
Summarised in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p446 |