| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/F/138 |
| Title | Grant |
| PreviousNumbers | XXIIII (late 13th c); R 118 (Norris); F 155 (late 19th c); French wine 14 (late 19th c) |
| Date | [Aug 1179 x Sep 1181] |
| Description | From: Henry II, king of England
To: the convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory
Exemption ('quietantia') through his whole land for transporting ('duco') the 100 measures of wine which Louis [VII] king of France gave them. No custom is to be exacted from them or their servants transporting the wine. The grant is made for the love of God and of St Thomas Becket. No date. [Date: after Louis's pilgrimage of 22-26 Aug 1179 and before the nomination of John Cumin as archbishop of Dublin on 6 Sep 1181. Probably immediately after Louis' pilgrimage and before Henry's departure for France in Apr 1180. We are grateful to Prof Nicholas Vincent of the British Academy-AHRB 'Acta of the Plantagenets' Project for advice on this date.]
Given at Marlborough [Wiltshire].
Witnesses: Godfrey de luci; Nicholas the chaplain ('Capellanus'); John Cumin; Roger Bigot; Reginald de Pavilli
Endorsed with description in late 12th cent hands. |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m, seal, stained |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Copies | Digitised |
| Related Material | Copy: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/F/111
Registered versions: CCA-DCc-Register/A, f272r, and CCA-DCc-Register/E, f38r (French rents and pedages section) |
| Publication Note | Transcribed in N Vincent, 'Charters of Henry II' (in preparation) as no 440
Illustrated in T A M Bishop, Scriptores Regis (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1961), pl XXXV, no 132
Illustrated in F Barlow, Thomas Becket (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1986), pl 41
Noted in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p461 |