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Order NumberCCA-DCc/ChAnt/C/168
TitleBond
PreviousNumbersi (late medieval); A 136 (Norris); Seal 34 (Sheppard)
Date15 Aug 1279
DescriptionFrom: William, abbot of Arbroath, Scotland; the convent of Arbroath Abbey
To: the prior and convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory

Binding themselves to pay 100s annually for feeding 13 poor people every Tuesday on behalf of Alexander [III], king of the Scots, for the sake of his soul and the souls of his predecessors and successors. To be paid by their proctor at the New Temple in London within the octave of 8 Sep.
Given at Arbroath Abbey [Angus, Scotland].

Endorsed with description in contemporary hand.
Extent1 doc
Physical DescriptionParchment, 1m, seal, stub of wrapping tie; seal tongue sometime detached from top of seal and cut off document, now reattached to bottom of seal and stitched to foot of document
LanguageLatin
AccessStatusOpen
Open
CopiesDigitised
Publication NoteCalendared in G W S Barrow in Scottish Historical Review, vol 32 (1951), pp16-17
Noted and partly transcribed in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p462

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