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County or diocese: Lincoln. Grant: Two clerical tenths from Canterbury province,...
Catalogue reference: E 179/38/644A
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This record is about the County or diocese: Lincoln. Grant: Two clerical tenths from Canterbury province,... dating from 1453 Sept 10 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Particulars of Account and other records relating.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1453 Sept 10
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County or diocese: Lincoln.
Grant: Two clerical tenths from Canterbury province, 1453 Mar 3; Two clerical tenths on unassessed benefices, Canterbury province, 1453 Mar 3.
Document type: Appointment of collectors.
Folios or pages: 1.
This single parchment membrane is a letter from John, bishop of Lincoln, to the prior and convent of St. Neot. After reciting a writ from Henry VI, dated 14 July 1453, ordering the bishop to appoint collectors in his diocese of the two tenths on assessed and unassessed benefices granted to the same king by the clergy of the province of Canterbury in convocation on 3 March 1453, he appoints them to collect the first of these two tenths in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon. The letter is dated 10 September 1453.
A few chunks have been torn out of the document, but what remains is wholly legible.
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- Latin
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- parchment membranes
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- On parchment, no container
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