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An acknowledgment by Gifferd de Vezana, canon of Cambray, nuncio of the Pope, has received of the abbot and convent of Oseney, by the hands of Hugh de Cumpton , £8 sterling from the tenth of Towcester, for the first 3 of the six years in which the tenth was granted as a subsidy for the Holy Land to Pope Boniface when he held the said church as cardinal; according to an account by the bishop of Lincoln of the sum of £584 11s. 11 3/4d, as contained in Ch. 27. Dated 14 Kl. Aug., 1299.

TOWCESTER, co. Northampton. Mutilated account of receipts and payments from the tithes of Towcester with reference to the grant to the Pope for six years. Temp. Ed. I. [See also Ch. 26 and Ch. 26b.] .