| Description | From: Wibert, I, prior of Canterbury Cathedral Priory; the convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory
Addressed to the priory's reeves ('prepositi') and servants ('ministri'), present and future, and all its men of Monks Eleigh ('Hellega'), both French and English. At the request of Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, the priory has granted the tithes of its demesne of Monks Eleigh ('Hellega') to Peter the scribe ('scriptor'), Theobald's clerk, for life or as long as he remains in the world. When he dies or renounces the world the tithes shall revert to the priory, but in future that church [Monks Eleigh?] shall have corn from 4 acres of land at harvest time ('in messe').
Given at the chapter house of Canterbury Cathedral Priory.
Witnesses: William, IV, the subprior [of Canterbury Cathedral Priory]; Thomas, II, third prior [of Canterbury Cathedral Priory]; Honorius, II, precentor ('cantor') [of Canterbury Cathedral Priory]; Florentinius [monk of Canterbury Cathedral Priory]; Ernulf, II, cellarer [of Canterbury Cathedral Priory]; Robert, II, sacrist ('secretarius') [of Canterbury Cathedral Priory]; Laurence, I, almoner ('elem'') [of Canterbury Cathedral Priory]; Azo ('Atson'), infirmarer ('magister infirmorum') [of Canterbury Cathedral Priory]; Felix [monk of Canterbury Cathedral Priory]; Ailricus, chamberlain [of Canterbury Cathedral Priory]; Richard of Whitstable ('Witstapla'), monk of Canterbury [Cathedral Priory]; Vivian of St Albans ('Sancto Albano'), monk of Canterbury [Cathedral Priory]; Hamo the reeve ('prepositus') of Canterbury; Osbert the clerk of 'horslega'; William, chamberlain of the prior of Canterbury Cathedral Priory ('camerarius prioris')
Endorsed with description in late 12th or early 13th cent hands. |
| Publication Note | Transcribed in A Saltman, Theobald archbishop of Canterbury (Athlone Press, London, 1956), pp267-268, as note to no 40
Noted in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p461
Noted in T A M Bishop, Scriptores Regis (Oxford, 1961), p75, noS11 |