| Description | Copies of privilege, short papal letters and episcopal confirmation concerning relations between St Augustine's Abbey and the archbishop, including issue of professions of obedience to be made by abbots to the archbishop. No date. [Date: handwriting.]
Privilege from Pope Eugenius III to Archbishop Theobald concerning his authority over the abbey. Includes confirmation of an agreement made under Pope Lucius II between Theobald and the abbey concerning a due of 50s 7d. The cathedral priory will renounce this due in return for 2 mills in Dover and 20s from a prebend in St Martin's Dover. Also, the Church of Canterbury should hold 3 shillings-worth of land in compensation for a 3s due for bread, drink and rams. With rota, benevalete monogram and subscriptions by 13 cardinals. Written by Robert, cardinal priest of St Romanus, papal chancellor. Dated 5 May 1145, at Viterbo.
Copy of letter from Pope [Adrian IV] to Abbot Silvester [abbot 1151-1161]. No year given.
Also copies of 8 letters from Pope Alexander III. No years given. Including letters addressed to Roger, abbot elect, and his monks, and to Archbishop Richard of Dover concerning the blessing of Roger. No year given. [Roger was blessed by the pope on 28 Jan 1179 (D Knowles, C N L Brooke and V C M London, The heads of religious houses, England and Wales 940-1216 (Cambridge, 1972), p36.]
Also including letter addressed to the clerks of churches belonging to the abbey. Also including letter to the archbishop and prior of the cathedral priory referring to forged privileges produced by the abbey, and letter to the archbishop referring to the pope's visions of Thomas Becket.
Also copy of DCc-ChAnt/A/49 and DCc-ChAnt/A/51.
Endorsed with descriptions in contemporary and 14th cent hands. |