| Description | For court held at Northfleet Church. Business includes probate, and instance and ex officio cases. Case types include testamentary, fornication and defamation. One entry specifies that the case was brought before 'Dominus' R de Valeynz, rector.
[Northfleet was in the deanery of Shoreham, in the archbishop's immediate jurisdiction. This document shows that at this date it was exempt from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon. See I J Churchill, Canterbury Administration, vol i (1933), pp90-1, for later occurrences of this. The see of Canterbury became vacant on 12 Oct 1333, and this may explain the presence of this document in the priory archive.] |