Skip to main content.
 
Order NumberCCA-DCc/ChAnt/A/36/4
TitleAct book
PreviousNumbersCCA-DCc-ChAnt/A/36 (Bunce); Case F 2 3-12 (19th c)
Date1340-1555
DescriptionFragments of act book of the archbishop's court of audience. Covers business from Apr 1340 to May 1343 and from Jun 1347 to Aug 1348 under Archbishop John de Stratford. Also business from Sep 1348 to Feb 1349 under the cathedral priory sede vacante.
On ff112r-115r, commission from Cardinal Reginald Pole to the dean and chapter acting sede vacante to grant dispensation and absolution to clerks and laity in his name. [no day] Feb 1555, at Lambeth.
Extent1 doc
Physical DescriptionPaper, 115ff, within parchment cover, all badly damaged by mould, repairs
LanguageLatin
AccessStatusOpen
Open
CopiesDigitised
Related MaterialAnother version of Pole's commission (transcription): David Wilkins, Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae, vol 4 (London, 1737), pp136-9
20th century index: CCA-DCc-LA/5/72
Publication NoteNoted in C Donahue, The records of the medieval ecclesiastical courts, part ii (Berlin, 1994), p89
Discussed in C Donahue and J P Gordus, A case from Archbishop Stratford's audience act book..., in Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law, ns, vol 2 (1972), pp45-59
Discussed in C E Woodruff, Notes from a fourteenth century act book of the consistory court of Canterbury, in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol xl (1928), pp53-64

    © 2025 Canterbury Cathedral | Powered by CalmView © 2008-2025
    Canterbury Cathedral Archives & Library, 11 The Precincts, Canterbury, CT1 2EH United Kingdom
    Tel: +44 (0) 1227 865330 | Email: