| Description | From: Henry VI, king of England
To: St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
Detailing the abbey's rights, privileges and liberties within its estates under previous royal privileges. Confirming these and detailing further rights. Including rights to markets and dues, and judicial rights.
Endorsed in 16th cent hand with a note that the writer gave the document to 'my Lorde Wootton'.
Given at Westminster [Middlesex].
Witnesses: John Stafford, archbishop of Canterbury, royal chancellor; William Alnwick, bishop of Lincoln; William Aiscough, bishop of Salisbury; Adam Moleyns, bishop of Chichester, keeper of the privy seal; Humphrey of Lancaster, duke of Gloucester; Richard Plantagenet, duke of York; Edmund Beaufort, marquess of Dorset; William de la Pole, marquess of Suffolk; Richard Nevill, earl of Salisbury; John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury; Ralph Cromwell; Ralph Botiller, royal treasurer |