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RefNo CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/38
PreviousNumbers lvi? (15th c); L 69 (Norris); L 37 (late 19th c)
Title Grant, in perpetual alms
Date [early 13th century]
Description From: Robert asse, butcher ('carnifex') To: the church of St Leonard Eastcheap, London An annual payment of 2s, payable as specified. Payable for the land and houses he has in St Leonard Eastcheap parish with the church to east. Right of distraint if payment in arrears. If Robert sells or mortgages the land, the purchaser or mortgagor is bound to make the payment. If the church's proctors or parishioners wish to buy the land, they shall have it for 12d less than anyone else ('propinquiores erunt in Empcione quam aliquis alius per xii denarios'). For this G the chaplain ('capellanus') and the parishioners of St Leonard Eastcheap have paid 1 mark. The grant is made for Robert's soul and the souls of his heirs. No date. [Date: handwriting. The article by Kissan, cited below, gives a date of c1380.] Witnesses: John the alderman; Ralph sperling; Reginald parlab'be; Richard son of Siwart; William dancher; Rayner the fisherman ('Reinerus piscator'); Luke the fisherman ('piscator'); Mgr Nicholas, dean of Arches; the whole chapter of the deanery of Arches Endorsed with descriptions in late 13th and 18th cent hands.
Language Latin
PhysicalDescription Parchment, 1m, seal, badly stained
RelatedMaterial Registered version: CCA-DCc-Register/B, f244r
PublnNote Reference to the dean and chapter of Arches discussed in B W Kissan, The London Deanery of Arches', Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (NS8, 1939), p202
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