| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/A/28 |
| Title | Composition |
| PreviousNumbers | vii (late medieval); A (late medieval); Z 40 (Norris) |
| Date | 7 Apr 1258 |
| Description | From: Boniface of Savoy, archbishop of Canterbury
To: Richard de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford
Setting terms for Richard's tenure from the archbishop of the manors of Tonbridge and Hadlow ('Haulo'), with the lowy ('leucata') of Tonbridge, and the manors of Bradsted, Filston ['Vieleston', in Shoreham], Horsmonden, Milton [in Westgate, Canterbury] and Pett [in Charing].
Details of services due and respective rights. Richard must act as high steward and chief butler at enthronement feasts. Details of his allowance in return for this, including clothing, wine, wax, food and tableware. Details of the sede vacante rights of the cathedral priory. Prior Nicholas and the convent have given their assent. Identified on verso as priory's part of indenture.
Witnesses: Walter Cantilupe, bishop of Worcester; Giles of Bridport, bishop of Salisbury; Roger le Bigod, earl of Norfolk, marshal of the royal household; Simon de Montfort ('monte forti'), earl of Leicester; Hugh bygod, chief justiciar of England ('justic' a...'); Roger de Quincy, earl of Winchester; Henry de Wengeham, royal chancellor; Giles de Argentin, steward of the royal household; Richard de Grey; Nicholas de Haulo.
Endorsed with description in 14th cent hand. |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m, indented at left side, holes, plica torn presumably where seals were attached |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Copies | Digitised |
| Related Material | Another part: PRO Chancery Miscellanea (C47) 9/59
Another version: LPL MS 1212, pp148-59
Petition by priory relating to agreement: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/195 |
| Publication Note | Transcribed (partially) in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p458
Discussed in F R H Du Boulay, The lordship of Canterbury (London, 1966), pp85-7, 296
Discussed in C E Woodruff, The election of Robert Winchelsey, in the Church Quarterly Review, no ccxlii (Jan 1936), p230 |