| Description | CCA-DCc-ChAnt/O/1-107
This section relates to Odiham in Hampshire, which lies 26 miles north east of Winchester and 37 miles north east of Southampton. The documents have no obvious connection with Canterbury and may only have come here in the 1660s, when the cathedral's archives were returned after the Restoration. DCc-ChAnt/O/107 relates to Bodiam in Sussex.
CCA-DCc-ChAnt/O/108-121A
The documents in this section relate to Orpington, which lies on the North Downs in the north-west corner of Kent. DCc-ChAnt/O/122A and DCc-ChAnt/O/150 also relate to Orpington. There are 12 charters for Orpington in DCc/Register/B, ff15r-29v and DCc/Register/E, ff350r-351v, contains 10 charters for Orpington. One of the charters is registered in the royal charters section.
CCA-DCc-ChAnt/O/122-126B
Most of these documents relate to Ospringe, about a mile west of Faversham in North Kent. Some of them concern the appropriation of St Mary's Hospital, also known as the Maison Dieu, Ospringe, by St John's College, Cambridge.
CCA-DCc-ChAnt/O/127A-152
The majority of documents in this section relate to Canterbury College, Oxford, founded for students from Canterbury Cathedral Priory by Archbishop Simon Islip between 1361 and 1363. Many of them are transcribed and discussed in W A Pantin's four volumes on Canterbury College, published by the Oxford Historical Society. A number of documents in this section relate to a dispute between the priory and the warden and scholars of Merton College about some land in or near the priory's manor of Cheam in Surrey. There are 23 charters for Oxford in DCc/Register/B, ff366r-391v. There are no charters for Oxford in DCc/Register/E. DCc-ChAnt/O/142-144 relate to the chapel of Overland, near Ash in East Kent.
CCA-DCc-ChAnt/O/145-147
These documents relate to the manor of Orgarswick, Kent, in the Romney Marshes. DCc/Register/C, f263r and DCc/Register/E, ff288v-289v both contain registered versions of these 3 charters.
CCA-DCc-ChAnt/O/153-154
These documents have not previously been catalogued. They relate to Oxford and Orpington. |