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Order NumberCCA-DCc/ChAnt/A/193C
TitleLetter
Date14 Jun 1298
DescriptionFrom: Robert Winchelsey, archbishop of Canterbury
To: the prior and chapter of Canterbury Cathedral Priory

Ordering them to increase the number of monks, which is short by 30.
Given at Charing [Kent].

Endorsed with address, 'dd' twice, and description in contemporary hands.
Extent1 doc
Physical DescriptionParchment, 1m, stitching holes at head and foot, slits for sealing closed, traces of applied seal, pasted to paper at right edge
LanguageLatin
AccessStatusOpen
Open
Related MaterialRegistered version (transcription): R Graham (ed), Registrum Roberti Winchelsey, vol i (Oxford, 1952), pp257-8
Publication NoteTranscribed in J B Sheppard, Literae Cantuarienses, vol i (London, Rolls Series, 1887), p24-5
Summarised in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p446

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