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Order NumberCCA-DCc/ChAnt/C/18A
TitleWrit
Date[1172x1189]
DescriptionFrom: Henry II, king of England

Fragment of version of DCc-ChAnt/C/14. Given in both languages. [Addressed to his bishops, earls, thanes, sheriffs and other subjects, English and French, in shires in which Archbishop Theobald and the cathedral priory hold land. Ordering that the priory should hold its lands and liberties as it did under Edward the Confessor, William I and Henry I.] No date. [Date: presence of 'dei gratia' clause. We are grateful to Prof Nicholas Vincent of the British Academy-AHRB 'Acta of the Plantagenets' Project for advice on this date.]
Extent1 doc
Physical DescriptionParchment, 1m, fragment only of left portion of charter, repairs, seal, now detached
LanguageLatin; Old English
AccessStatusOpen
Open
CopiesDigitised
Related MaterialRegistered versions: CCA-DCc-Register/A, f149r; CCA-DCc-Register/E, f54r, numbered 113; and CCA-DCc-Register/I, f65v, numbered xv (Latin only)
Other versions: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/14, CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/22 and CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/200
Other versions listed in Pelteret, as below
Publication NoteCalendared in D A E Pelteret, Catalogue of English post-Conquest vernacular documents (Woodbridge, 1990), p80, as no 54
Transcribed in N Vincent, Charters of Henry II (in preparation), no 434
Calendared in T A M Bishop, Scriptores Regis (Oxford, 1961), p41, as no 103

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