| Description | Copies of five charters relating to the manor of Stisted:
(1) Grant
From: Godwine; Wulfgyth
To: Canterbury Cathedral Priory
Their lands of Stisted and Coggeshall, Essex, free from all secular service as they held it of King Edward the Confessor and his father. The grant is made with Edward's consent. No date [1042x1066]. [Date: Edward's dates.]
(2) Grant
From: Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury
To: Canterbury Cathedral Priory
Anselm returns a moiety of the altar of Christ (sic) which he held after the death of Archbishop Lanfranc, his predecessor, who returned the other moiety to the priory in his lifetime, because it belonged to it, and the manor of Stisted, because it also belongs to the priory. No date [1093x1109]. [Date: Anselm's dates.]
Witnesses: William, archdeacon of Canterbury; Hamo, sheriff of Kent
(3) Mandate (DCc-ChAnt/C/71/1)
From: Henry II, king of England
To: Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury
The manor of Stisted should be returned to the church of Canterbury if it has been unjustly dispossessed of it since the death of Henry I, the king's grandfather. Witness list omitted from copy. No date [1155x1164]. [Date: as in DCc-ChAnt/C/71/1, where the archbishop is T and could be either Theobald or Thomas Becket. We are grateful to Prof Nicholas Vincent of the British Academy-AHRB 'Acta of the Plantagenets' Project for advice on this date.]
(4) Grant (DCc-ChAnt/S/313)
From: Walter, prior of Canterbury Cathedral Priory; the convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory
To: Matilda of Saint-Saens ('Sanctus sydonis')
The manor of Stisted to Matilda for life, for an annual payment of £10. No date [1143x1152]. [Date: dates of Prior Walter Durdent and PriorWalter de Meri.]
(5) Writ
From: Edward III, king of England
To: John of Coggeshall, the king's escheator in Essex
John has informed the king that he took the cathedral priory's manor of Stisted into the king's hands because he understood that the priory had acquired it from Henry longchamp', deceased, without the king's licence. The prior has shown the king that the manor was acquired from Henry by the king's licence a long time before it was taken into the king's hands and exhibited letters patent dated 6 May 1340 proving that the king had granted Henry his licence. The king orders John to return the manor to the priory. Dated 28 Apr 1353.
No date. [Date: handwriting.] |
| Related Material | Other versions of item 1 listed and calendared: P H Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, an annotated list and bibliography (London, Royal Historical Society, 1968), 452, no 1646
Another version of Henry II's writ transcribed: N Vincent, Charters of Henry II (in preparation), no 412 |