| Description | Transcript of an inspeximus dated 13 May 1238 at London, issued by Otto, cardinal deacon of St Nicholas in Carcere and papal legate.
Recites the inspeximus of Prior John [de Chetham] and Canterbury Cathedral Priory, dated 9 Mar 1238.
This in turn recites the grant by Robert [of Battle], abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, and the convent of St Augustine's Abbey to the abbot and convent of St Mary de Monte Mirteto, Ostia and Velletri diocese, of the advowson of Littlebourne church, dated 29 Jan 1238. Reserving the ordination of a vicarage to St Augustine's Abbey. The grant is made at the command of Pope Gregory IX and the request of the bishop of Ostia, sent to them by the pope first by 'Dominus' John of Ferentino, the pope's chaplain and archdeacon of Norwich, and afterwards by Deodatus the monk, a proctor. Canterbury Cathedral Priory confirms the grant by St Augustine's Abbey and the abbey's reservation of a vicarage.
Transcript made by Dom Adam Hamilton, OSB, from an original in the archives of Subiaco Abbey in 1877 and sent to Canon [James Craigie] Robertson on 10 Mar 1879. Also enclosing a copy of pp137-138 of 'The Tablet', dated 29 Jul 1876, containing a summary of documents at Subiaco relating to the grant of the advowson of Littlebourne, taken from an 18th cent catalogue of the archives. There is also a review of book 6 of George Eliot's 'Daniel Deronda' on p138. The piece in 'The Tablet' is 'by a monk of St Augustine's, Ramsgate'. |