| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/E/186 |
| Title | Arbitration |
| Date | 6 Nov 1200 |
| Description | Arbitrators: Eustace, bishop of Ely; Samson, abbot of Bury St Edmunds; Roger de Rolveston, dean of Lincoln Cathedral
Roger has been appointed in place of [Hugh of Avalon,] bishop of Lincoln. Concerning the dispute between Hubert [Walter], archbishop of Canterbury, and the prior [Geoffrey, II] and convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory over the archbishop's proposal to build a collegiate church with a community of secular canons at Lambeth [Surrey]. Allowing Hubert to build there a house for Premonstratensian Canons, with specified conditions for its site, endowment and purpose.
Also concerning disputes over the churches of Monkton, Eastry, Meopham and Eynsford [all Kent]. They are to be held for their lives by the clerks who hold them at present. These are, respectively, Simon, archdeacon of Wells, Mgr Ralph de St Martin, Virgil, and [John Bellesmains], former archbishop of Lyons. Also concerning offerings from the priory's manors and disputed marshlands, moors and fisheries. Subscribed with sealing clauses by Hubert and Geoffrey.
Endorsed with late 13th cent description and note of registration in the almonry. |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m, medieval stitch repair, hole, seal, 4 further slits for seal tags |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Related Material | Registered versions: CCA-DCc-Register/A, ff174r-174v (compositions section ); LPL Lambeth MS 415, f134v
Registered version of papal confirmation citing arbitration: CCA-DCc-Register/I, ff15r-17v
Other versions: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/A/5; CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/129-132
Another version: Douai, Bibl municipale, ms 887, ff42v-43r
Related documents: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/129A; CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/133-138 |
| Publication Note | Noted in C R Cheney, Hubert Walter (London, 1967), p149 n2
Transcribed (partially), with photograph in C R Cheney, English Bishops' Chanceries (Manchester, 1950), pp159-60 and plate VI
Transcribed in C R Cheney and E John, English Episcopal Acta III, Canterbury 1193-1205 (London, 1986), pp51-4
Calendared 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 p111, n62 |