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Folio: 185. Wiltshire. Obligation. First party: Henry, prior of Motesfont [Mottisfont],...

Catalogue reference: DL 42/2/14/10

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This record is about the Folio: 185. Wiltshire. Obligation. First party: Henry, prior of Motesfont [Mottisfont],... dating from 1277 Aug 4 in the series Duchy of Lancaster: Cartularies, Enrolments, Surveys and other Miscellaneous Books. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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DL 42/2/14/10
Date
1277 Aug 4
Description

Folio: 185. Wiltshire. Obligation.

First party: Henry, prior of Motesfont [Mottisfont], and the convent there.

Second party: [unspecified].

Place or subject: The prior and convent and their successors are held and obliged to make an anniversary day for the death of the late Henry de Cadurc' [Chaworth] on the feast-day of St Lawrence [10 August] with nine readings and chanting forever. Since Patrick, his brother, for the same reason has granted one acre of arable land in his manor of Berewyk [Berwick St James], together with the advowson of the church of the same manor, to the prior and convent and their church of Motesfont [Mottisfont] in charity, the prior and convent grant that, if it happens that this church is vacant before it is granted to them to their own proper uses, at the instance of Patrick, they will present a suitable person.

County: [Wiltshire].

Additional people: [unspecified]

Dated at Motesfont [Mottisfont].

4 Aug 1277.

Related material

For the original charter see: DL 27/232

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Not Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19719493/

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