| Description | Account of attempts by Adam de Ryddenne, monk and proctor for St Augustine's Abbey, to ask Archbishop Robert Winchelsey for letters dimissory ('apostoli') on 6 May 1299. This is for the abbey's appeal to Rome as begun on 8 Apr at Gillingham concerning its churches of Plumstead, Lenham, Tenterden, Selling, Preston [near Wingham], Littlebourne, and St Paul's Canterbury, and St Laurence's Hospital Canterbury. Nicholas, the archbishop's porter, would not let him enter Lambeth manor. Recites petition read out by Adam. Also present were Mgr William de Rouceby, advocate, and Philip de suteberghe and John de Storne, clerks.
With notarial sign of John Alani de Becles, Norwich diocese, notary public, who wrote the document. |