| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/H/66 |
| Title | Writ |
| PreviousNumbers | XXXI (late 13th c); R 42 (Norris); H 66 (late 19th c) |
| Date | [1156x1162] |
| Description | From: Henry II, king of England
Addressed to his sheriff and ministers in Kent. They are to cause the prior and monks of Canterbury Cathedral Priory to take full possession of their land on the hills ('supra montes') of Hollingbourne, as these lands have been determined ('dirationata') by the sworn enquiry of men of Kent. No date. [Dates: after the King's first crossing to Normandy and before the promotion of Thomas Becket as archbishop of Canterbury. We are grateful to Prof Nicholas Vincent of the British Academy-AHRB 'Acta of the Plantagenets' Project for advice on this date.]
Given at Volognes [Manche, France].
Witness: Thomas Becket, chancellor of England
Endorsed with description in late 13th cent hands. |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m, seal, slightly dirty |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Related Material | Registered versions: CCA-DCc-Register/A, f147v, CCA-DCc-Register/E, f52r-v, and CCA-DCc-Register/I, f69v |
| Publication Note | Transcribed in L Delisle, Recueil des Actes de Henri II, ed. E. Berger, vol i (Paris, 1916), pp324-5
Noted in R C van Caenegem, Royal Writs in England from the Conquest to Glanvill... (Selden Society, lxxvii, for 1958-9 (1959)), p74 and n1
Transcribed in N Vincent, Charters of Henry II (in preparation), no 420
Noted in T A M Bishop, Scriptores Regis (Oxford, 1961), p42, as no 133 |