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Notification of the King’s confirmation to Le Valasse Abbey of a composition made between the abbot and convent and Ralph chamberlain of Tancarville over 180 acres in the forest of Lillebonne

Identity

Title

Notification of the King’s confirmation to Le Valasse Abbey of a composition made between the abbot and convent and Ralph chamberlain of Tancarville over 180 acres in the forest of Lillebonne

Beneficiary

Le Valasse Abbey (Institutions)

Date of issue

11 December 1201

Place of issue

Rouen (Places)

Archive

A = Rouen, Archives départementales de la Seine-Maritime, 18HP7 no.14

Copies

B = Rouen, Arch. dép. Seine-Maritim,e 18HP28 (Le Valasse cartulary) fos.22v-23r, s.xv.

Seal

Sealed sur double queue, parchment tag through a single slit, seal impression missing

Enrolled

Printed

Scribes

Comment

Endorsed: carta ia. reg(is) Ioh(annis) Anglorum (s.xiii); confirmatio [regis super foresta cancelled] foreste N. (s.xiii) et nove viginti acris terre in Insulabona (s.xiv/xv); various post-medieval endorsements.  Approx. 187 X 81 + 22mm. 

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Photo of charter
Transcription

Iohannes Dei gratia rex Angl(ie) dominus Hybern(ie) dux Normann(ie) Aquit(anie) et com(es) And(egauie) archiep(iscop)is, ep(iscop)is, abb(at)ibus, comitibus, baronibus, iustic(iis), vicecom(itibus) et omnibus baill(iu)is et fidelibus suis salutem.  Sciatis nos concessisse et presenti carta confirmasse rationabilem compositionem factam inter abbatem et conuentum de Voto et Radulf(um) camerarium de Tankaruill’ de nouem vigint(i) acr(is) terre cum pertinenc(iis) in foresta Insulebone sicut scripta inter eos inde facta rat(i)onabiliter testantur.  Test(ibus) Will(el)mo Marisc(allo) com(ite) Pembr’, Will(elm)o com(ite) Sarisbir’, Ioh(ann)e de Pratell’, Will(elm)o de Pratell’, Petro de Stok’.  Dat’ per manum S(imonis) archid(iaconi) Well’ apud Rothom’, xi. die Decembr(is) regni nostri anno tercio.

Calendar

Notification that the king has granted and in this his present charter confirmed a composition made between the Abbey of Le Valasse and Ralph chamberlain of Tancarville concerning 180 acres of land with appurtenances in the forest of Lillebonne, as the written agreement made therein reasonably sets out.

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