| Description | From: Edward III, king of England
Edward II gave the prior and convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory licence to acquire lands, tenements and rents to an annual value of £20 for the maintenance of 7 chaplains to celebrate mass each day in the chapel of St Thomas next to the priory gate [in the almonry] for the souls of himself, his ancestors and all the faithful departed, the statute of mortmain not withstanding.
The king, wishing to give effect to his father's grant, has given licence to Alexander Hanekyn, clerk, to grant the priory 1 messuage, 2 mills, 195 acres of land, 20 acres and 1 rood of meadow, 35 acres of pasture, 11½ acres of wood, payments of 10s 7d, 7 hens, 10 eggs and 2 bushels and 3 pecks of salt and a moiety of 1 messuage and 1 garden in Ickham, Westwell, Linton, Eastry, Mersham, Little Chart, Hackington, Brook, Appledore, Old Romney ('Elderomene'), the vill ('villa') of Stone next Ospringe, the vill ('villa') of St Martin's outside Canterbury, Great Chart, Chartham, the vill ('villa') of SS Cosmus and Damian [Blean] and the suburb of Canterbury. The lands, excepting ('praeter') the payment of 10s 7d, are worth 113s 7½d annually, as valued by William de Hatton, escheator in Kent. The grant is valued at £10 a year, in part satisfaction of the £20. Sent patent. The clerk is Grym.
Given at Westminster [Middlesex].
Endorsed with description, describing the property as having an annual value of £10, in 14th cent hands. |