| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/L/132 |
| Title | Arbitration (quadruplicate) |
| PreviousNumbers | L 356 (Norris); Seal 42 (Sheppard) |
| Date | 6 Nov 1200 |
| Description | From: Eustace, bishop of Ely; Samson, abbot of Bury St Edmunds; Roger de Rolveston, dean of Lincoln Cathedral
Eustace, Samson and Roger, who has been appointed in place of [Hugh of Avalon,] bishop of Lincoln, have been chosen to arbitrate in 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 Sancto Martino, Virgil, and [John Bellesmains] archbishop of Lyons. Also concerning offerings from the priory's manors and disputed marshlands, moors and fisheries.
Given at Westminster [Middlesex].
Endorsed with description, a note that the document is in quadruplicate and 'script'' in 13th cent hands. |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m, 3 seals, plica at bottom and sides, slit for seal cords in bottom plica, several small rust stains |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Related Material | Registered versions: CCA-DCc-Register/A, ff174r-174v, and Register E, ff63r-63v (compositions section)
Registered version: LPL Lambeth MS 415, f134v
Other versions: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/A/5, CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/175, CCA-DCc-ChAnt/E/186, CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/129-131
Other version: Douai, Bibl municipale, ms 887, ff42v-43r
Related material: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/129A, CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/133-138 |
| Publication Note | Transcribed in C R Cheney and E John, English Episcopal Acta III, Canterbury 1193-1205 (London, 1986), pp51-4
Noted in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p439 |