MS. Ch. Kent 237

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Language(s): Latin

WESTWELL. Confirmation by Simon [Sudbury], archbishop of Canterbury subscibed to a "laudum" and decree of arbitration by his predecessor William [Whittlesey] between John Barler, rector of Westwell , and John Frebody, rector of Bocton Alulphi , concerning the tithes of the hamlets of Chilberton, Shotyngdon, and Wyke. Dated at Lambeth, 4 Kl. Nov., 1376.

Physical Description

Form: sheet
Support: parchment
With four seals.
Seal: Seal (detached, kept separately) "ad causas" of Simon de Sudbury, archbishop of Canterbury (broken). (MS. Ch. Kent 237*a)
Seal: Seal (detached, kept separately) of William Wittelsey, archbishop of Canterbury (nearly perfect). (MS. Ch. Kent 237*b)
Seal: Barler's seal (detached, kept separately) (fragment). (MS. Ch. Kent 237*c)
Seal: Seal (detached, kept separately) of John Frebody (nearly perfect). (MS. Ch. Kent 237*d)

Record Sources

W. H. Turner and H. O. Coxe, Calendar of charters and rolls preserved in the Bodleian library (Oxford, 1878) [annotated copy, Bodleian Library R.Ref.741], 648 [Google Books]
J. Gilbert Wiblin, Handlist 339e. Seals (including casts and matrices), May 1916 (unpublished handlist, Bodleian Library), p. 71

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2020-10: First online publication

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