| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/A/3 |
| Title | Will |
| PreviousNumbers | C 194 (Norris); Seal 5 (Sheppard) |
| Date | [1158x1161] |
| Description | Testator: Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury
Leaving his goods to the poor. With Walter, bishop of Rochester, Philip, Theobald's chancellor, Mgr Ralph of Lisieux ('lexoviens') and John of Salisbury as executors. Granting 40 days indulgence to those carrying out his will and threatening excommunication to those obstructing it, including royal officials.
Protecting, during the vacancy, the property of the cathedral priory, the lands and woods of the archbishopric, and the clergy of the see. No date. [Date: Millor etc, as below, p245. There are significant variations between different versions of the document.]
Endorsed with descriptions in 13th cent hands.
Sheppard included with the document an impression from a seal made from a classical gem which he considered comparable to Theobald's counterseal. A note of 1873 records that the original was owned by W Trimnell of Canterbury. |
| Extent | 1 doc; loose tag with seal |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m, some stains, seal, wrapping tie; loose tag with applied seal |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Related Material | Registered versions: CCA-DCc-Register/A, f164r-164v, CCA-DCc-Register/E, f60v and CCA-DCc-Register/I, ff84r-84v (archbishops' charter sections)
Registered version: BL Add MS 6159, f10r
Another version: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/204
Other versions: Listed in Saltman, as below |
| Publication Note | Transcribed in A Saltman, Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury (London, 1956), pp254-7
Transcribed and translated, collating other versions, in W J Millor, S J and H E Butler, C N L Brooke, The letters of John of Salisbury, vol 1 (London, 1955), pp245-8 |