| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/A/216 |
| Title | Letter |
| PreviousNumbers | 30 (20th c) |
| Date | 30 Apr 1300 |
| 2 May 1300 |
| Description | From: the abbot of Waltham Abbey; the abbot of Westminster Abbey
To: the archdeacon of Rochester
Addressed to the archdeacon or his official. 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. Notifying him of this and asking him to observe the privilege. Dated by the abbot of Westminster 30 Apr, at Westminster, and by the abbot of Waltham 2 May, at Waltham.
Endorsed with description in contemporary hand. |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Copies | Digitised |
| Related Material | Related documents: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/A/58, CCA-DCc-ChAnt/A/211 and CCA-DCc-ChAnt/A/213
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 |