| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/E/170 |
| Title | Libel |
| PreviousNumbers | Q 159 (Norris); E 171 (late 19th c) |
| Date | [c1288] |
| Description | From: John de Martivans, proctor of Mgr Anselm of Eastry, rector of Eastry ('ecclesia loci eiusdem')
To: the official of the court of Canterbury
Libel against the prior and chapter of Canterbury Cathedral Priory and John de Weston' and Thomas de Welles, the priory's servants ('serviens'). The priory claimed tithes in Eastry because of its lands there (named). Anselm warned the priory to withdraw its claim and when it persisted excommunicated the prior, the senior members of the chapter, John and Thomas. The priory, by Geoffrey Arundel, third prior, William de Refham, almoner ('elemosinarius'), Robert de foxle, monk, and others, clerks and laymen, broke into the barns where Anselm's tithe corn was kept and took it away. Anselm therefore denounced the prior, the said monks and other senior members of the chapter as excommunicate. The priory used papal letters addressed to the abbot of Boxley ['Bexley' in document] against Anselm, although Anselm's proctor had objected to them before the auditor of contradictory letters, and Anselm was denounced as excommunciate because of the sentences he had imposed on the priory. John alleges that Anselm has suffered injuries to the value of £1,000 and claims compensation from the priory. The priory has falsely claimed that a moiety of the tithes of Eastry belongs to its almonry and continues to claim them. John asks the judge to compel the priory to stop this and to restore the tithes, to the value of 120 marks. The priory also claims the tithes of the demesne of its manor of Eastry and witholds 5 parts of them for its almonry, paying Anselm only the remainder. John asks that the priory be compelled to pay the full amount and to pay 20 marks a years in compensation for tithes withheld. No date. [Date: apparently before Anselm's appeal of 17 Nov 1288 (DCc-ChAnt/E/169).]
Endorsed with description and that the seal was compared in late 13th cent hands. |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m, seal tongue and wrapping tie torn away, slightly stained, slightly dirty |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Copies | Digitised |
| Related Material | Documents from same case: CCA-DCc/ChAnt/C/1288; CCA-DCc/ChAnt/C/1290; CCA-DCc/ChAnt/E/168; CCA-DCc/ChAnt/E/168A; CCA-DCc/ChAnt/E/169; CCA-DCc-ChAnt/M/254; CCA-DCc/ChAnt/Z/174; CCA-DCc-ESRoll/45; CCA-DCc-ESRoll/324; CCA-DCc-ESRoll/364; CCA-DCc-SVSB/I/98/4-5; CCA-DCc-SVSB/I/99/1-2; CCA-DCc-SVSB/I/107/2; CCA-DCc-SVSB/I/156; CCA-DCc-SVSB/II/205/3-217/4 |
| Publication Note | Noted in J B Sheppard, HMC 5th Report Appendix, p442
Listed in Charles Donahue Jr, The Records of the Medieval Ecclesiastical Courts Part II: England (Reports of the Working Group on Church Court Records) Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal history 7 (Berlin, 1994), p81
Case noted in Norma Adams and Charles Donahue Jr, Select Cases from the Ecclesiastical Courts of the Province of Canterbury c1200-1301 (Selden Society 95, 1981), introduction p30, n10 |