| Description | Party: Hubert Walter, archbishop of Canterbury
Party: the prior and convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory
The archbishop and the priory have agreed that [Hugh of Avalon], bishop of Lincoln, [Eustace], bishop of Ely and [Samson], abbot of Bury St Edmunds Abbey, papal judges delegate, or Mgr Roger [de Rolveston], dean of Lincoln, if the bishop of Lincoln cannot be present, shall arbitrate on certain disputes between them concerning the building of a chapel at Lambeth [Surrey], the churches of Monkton, Eastry, Meopham and Eynsford [all in Kent], the gifts? ('exenium') of certain of the priory's manors, and disputed marshes, fisheries and moors. The archbishop and the priory promise to abide by the arbitrators' decision. No date. [Date: as in English Episcopal Acta cited below.]
Given at the chapter house of Canterbury Cathedral Priory.
Witnesses: Gilbert Glanvill, bishop of Rochester; Mauger, bishop of Worcester; Hugh, abbot of Abingdon Abbey; John, abbot of Hyde Abbey; Mgr Walter de Gant, abbot of Waltham Abbey; Robert, abbot of Eynsham Abbey; Martin, abbot of Chertsey Abbey; John, abbot of Battle Abbey; Robert, abbot of Boxley Abbey; Henry de Castilion, archdeacon of Canterbury; Godfrey, archdeacon of Cambrai; ('Cameracensis'); Mgr Richard of Kent, archdeacon of Northampton; William, archdeacon of Rochester; Mgr William de Verdun, archdeacon of Gloucester
Endorsed with description in 13th cent hands. |
| Related Material | Related material: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/A/5, CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/175, CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/129-135 and CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/136-138
Another version transcribed from Lambeth MS 415: W Stubbs (ed), Chronicles and Memorials of the reign of Richard I, vol II, Epistolae Cantuarienses (Rolls Series, 1865), p511, as noDXLVII |
| Publication Note | Transcribed in C R Cheney and E John, English Episcopal Acta III, Canterbury 1193-1205 (London, 1986), pp49-50
Summarised in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p439 |