| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/C/20 |
| Title | Writ |
| PreviousNumbers | LII (late 13th c); ii (late medieval); R 36 (Norris) |
| Date | [1155x1157] |
| Description | From: Henry II, king of England
Version of DCc-ChAnt/C/17. Given in both languages. Addressed to his bishops, earls, thanes, justices, sheriffs and other subjects, English and French, in shires in which Archbishop Theobald and the cathedral priory hold land. He has granted to the priory the lands and liberties which it held under Edward the Confessor, William I and Henry I. Witness list in Latin version only. No date. [Date: after the appointment of Becket as chancellor, and before the disgrace of Henry of Essex in Jul 1157. The only known visit by the king to York in this period was in Jan/Feb 1155. We are grateful to Prof Nicholas Vincent of the British Academy-AHRB 'Acta of the Plantagenets' Project for advice on this date.]
Given at York.
Witnesses: Philip de Harcourt, bishop of Bayeux; Arnulf, bishop of Lisieux; Thomas Becket, royal chancellor; Reginald, earl of Cornwall; Robert, earl of Leicester; Henry of Essex, constable
Endorsed with descriptions in 12th and 13th cent hands. |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m, some discolouration, slits for seal tag |
| Language | Latin; Old English |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Copies | Digitised |
| Related Material | Registered versions: CCA-DCc-Register/A, f81r, and CCA-DCc-Register/O, f189v
Other versions: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/17, CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/18, CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/46 and CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/204, CCA-DCc-ChAnt/R/15
Other versions listed in Pelteret, as below |
| Publication Note | Calendared in D A E Pelteret, Catalogue of English post-Conquest vernacular documents (Woodbridge, 1990), pp77-8, as no 51
Transcribed in N Vincent, Charters of Henry II (in preparation), no 410
Noted in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p457
Calendared in T A M Bishop, Scriptores Regis (Oxford, 1961), p41, as no 107 |