| Description | Party: Mgr Pontius de Sabler, rector of Bocking
Party: Roger of St Alphege, prior of Canterbury Cathedral Priory; the convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory
Copy of chirograph dated 30 May 1260 at Canterbury. Concerning the tithes of the priory's lordship of Bocking. Pontius will receive from the priory as tithes corn from 10 acres from the lordship sown with wheat, rye and oats, which ?every second year are manured or marled. The rector may choose the land, which will be measured by the priory bailiff. Previously the rector used to receive corn from 6 acres. With the assent of Boniface, archbishop, who has sealed both parts. No date. [Date: handwriting.] |