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Notification of the King’s pardon to Hinchinbrooke Priory for an annual rent of 15s.

Identity

Title

Notification of the King’s pardon to Hinchinbrooke Priory for an annual rent of 15s.

Beneficiary

Hinchinbrooke Priory (Institutions)

Date of issue

10 June 1199

Place of issue

Westminster, London, England (Places)

Archive

A = BL Additional Charter 33597

Copies

Seal

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

Enrolled

Printed

Scribes

Comment

Endorsed: Hunt’ (s.xiv).  Approx. 188 X 83 + 30mm. Stained and damp damaged, with some letters illegible, other entirely missing.

Cf. BL Additional Charter 33442 for a confirmation of the present grant by Hugh (I) bp of Lincoln, whence EEA, iv, no. 73.

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Transcription

Iohannes Dei gratia rex Angl(ie) dominus Hybern(ie) dux Norm(annie) et Aquit(anie) comes Andegauie archiepiscopis, episcopis, abbatibus, comitibus, baronibus, iustic(iis), vic(ecomitibus), prepositis et omnibus balliuis et fidelibus suis salutem.  Sciatis nos pro salute anime nostre et anime reg(is) H(enrici) patris nostri et ....... omnium antecessorum nostrorum perdonasse in perpetuum Deo et ecclesie sancti Iacobi extra villam de Huntendon’ et sanctimonialibus ibidem Deo seruientibus quindecim solid(os) quos nobis reddere solebant pro sexaginta acris terre et quodam prato que sunt ante portam earum extra villam de Huntendon’, ita quod de certero teneant predictam terram et pratum in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, liberam et absolutam ab omni seruicio et consuetudine et exactione seculari.  Hiis testibus: W(illelmo) London’ episcopo, Gaufr(ido) filio Petri com(ite) Essex’, Willelmo Mariscallo comite de Penbrok’, Hug(one) Bard’, Rob(erto) filio Rogeri, Willelmo de Warenn’.  Dat’ per manum H(uberti) Cant’ archiepiscopi cancellarii nostri apud Westm’ x. die Iunii regni nostri anno primo.

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Notification of the King’s pardon to Hinchinbrooke Priory for an annual rent of 15s. owed for 60 acres and a meadow lying before the nuns’ gate outside the vill of Huntingdon.

Original Charters of King John