Prior and Convent of Launde. King. [A large section of this document is missing.]Remains...

Petitioners

Prior and Convent of Launde.

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

[A large section of this document is missing.]Remains of a letter from the Prior and Convent of Launde, replying to the king's request for an aid to help pay the costs of the marriage of [his sister Eleanor]. They offer the king 5 marks.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Launde Priory, [Leicestershire].

People mentioned

[Henry of Braunston], Prior of Launde

[Eleanor of Woodstock, sister of the king].

For a file of similar documents, from which this document is presumably a stray, see C 270/12

For two further letters from this Prior on this matter, see nos.30-31 of C 270/9

For a similar document from a different house see SC 8/124/6192

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.587-93 (request to the Archbishop of York and other clerics for an aid to pay for the marriage of Eleanor to the Count of Guelders)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.422 (grant to the priory that their grant of 5 marks will not serve as a precedent)