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Order NumberCCA-DCc/ChAnt/D/83
TitleNotification
PreviousNumbers27 (late medieval); D 148 (Norris); D 66 (late 19th c)
Date[1157x1161]
DescriptionFrom: Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury and papal legate

Notification of his ordinance concerning the status of Dover Priory. Dover Priory is to be subject to Canterbury Cathedral Priory, as its cell. The prior of Dover shall always be monk a professed at Canterbury and all monks of Dover shall receive their habits and make their professions at Canterbury and shall always be obedient to it. Dover is to regard Canterbury as its mother church and is never to withdraw itself from that subjection. All these things are to be observed on pain of anathema. No date. [Date: as in Saltman, cited below.]

Witnesses: Mgr Bartholomew, archdeacon of Exeter; Philip, archdeacon of Norwich; Mgr John de Sareb'; Hugh de Gant; Eudo the notary ('notarius'); William de Norhall'; Osbert de Presteton'; Richard, canon of Exeter Cathedral; Richard the physician ('medicus'), canoon of Merton Priory; Alfred the almoner ('Alueredus elemosinarius')

Endorsed with description in late 12th or early 13th cent hands and note of registration in late 13th cent hand.
Extent1 doc
Physical DescriptionParchment, 1m, slits for seal tag, slightly dirty
LanguageLatin
AccessStatusOpen
Open
Related MaterialAnother version: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/D/72
Exemplifications: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/D/98; CCA-DCc-ChAnt/D/99
Registered versions: CCA-DCc-Register/A, f187v, and CCA-DCc-Register/E, f62r (compositions section)
Registered versions: Lambeth Palace MS 241, f18r; Corpus Christi College Cambridge, 438
Another version, from CCA-DCc-LitMS/D/4, ff162v-163r (transcription): J B Sheppard, Literae Cantuarienses iii (London, 1889), 370
Another version transcribed in W Stubbs, Gervase of Canterbury ii, 288
Publication NoteTranscribed in A Saltman, Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury (London, 1956), pp307-9

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