| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/A/211 |
| Title | Letter |
| Date | 13 May 1300 |
| Description | From: the prior and convent of Rochester Cathedral Priory
To: the abbot Waltham Abbey; the abbot Westminster Abbey
Accepting the terms of a letter, recited, received on 7 May 1300 from the abbots, dated by the abbot of Westminster 30 Apr, at Westminster, with further date, now illegible, by the abbot of Waltham. This letter in turn recites a letter from Pope Boniface VIII appointing the abbots, together with the abbot of Bury St Edmunds, as conservators of the exemptions and privileges which the pope has granted to St Augustine's Abbey. The pope outlines the terms and background of the privilege. Pope's letter dated 27 Feb 1300, at the Lateran. Date 13 May, no year. [Date: date of the pope's letter.]
Endorsed with description in contemporary hand. |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m, bottom right corner and plica torn and incomplete |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Copies | Digitised |
| Related Material | Related documents: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/A/58, CCA-DCc-ChAnt/A/213 and CCA-DCc-ChAnt/A/216
Registered version of papal letter; CCA-DCc-Register/I, ff185v-186v
Versions of papal letter and privilege (translation): A H Davis, William Thorne's Chronicle of St Augustine's Abbey Canterbury (Oxford, 1934), pp335-40 |
| Publication Note | Noted in J H Denton, Robert Winchelsey and the Crown (Cambridge, 1980), p180 |