| Description | From: Edward II, king of England
[Document damaged. Several small areas of text lost. Part of property description supplied from calendared version.] The king has given the prior and convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory licence to acquire lands and rents to the annual value of £20 for the maintenance of 7 chaplains to celebrate divine service in the chapel of St Thomas next to the priory's gate [the Almonry chapel] for his soul and the souls of his ancestors and of all the faithful departed, the statute of mortmain notwithstanding.
The king, wishing to give effect to this grant, gives Bertram de Twytham licence to grant the priory 12 acres of land, 7 acres of meadow and 5 acres of pasture in Elverton [in Stone by Faversham], Chartham, Brook and Ickham, which are held of the priory and are worth 7s a year, as valued by Richard de Rodeneye, escheator on this side of the Trent, in part satisfaction of the £20 and gives the priory licence to receive the lands.
Given at Rochester [Kent].
Endorsed with description in early 14th cent hands. |