MS. Ch. Suffolk 352

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Grant (exemplification); Lavenham, etc.; 22 Feb., 4 Edw. III (1330)

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Language(s): Latin

LAVENHAM. Writ of King Edward III to the bailiff of Bury St Edmunds (St. Edmund), reciting a grant to Robert de Veer, earl of Oxford, releasing his tenants &c. of his manor of Lavenham from paying toll throughout the kingdom, and commanding the bailiff (as often before) not to molest or distrain for toll when the said tenants shall come to Bury St Edmunds (St. Edmund)'s. Tested at Windsor Castle (Windsor), 22 Feb., 4 of his reign (1330). Noted at the foot, "Nota dorsum cedule contra istud breve plane", and on the back is a recital of priviledges granted to the abbey of St. Edmund by Hen. I, to which this writ is said to be contrary.

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Form: sheet
Support: parchment

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], 488 [Google Books]

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