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ECR 48 004

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ECR 48 004

Title

Mapledurham, Oxfordshire: Copy of agreement of 1265

Level

Item

Date

1558 - 1603

Extent & medium

1 folio

Content description

Copy, temp. Elizabeth I, of agreement between Walter de Lichelade, rector of the church of Mapuldram, co. Hants, and the abbot and convent of Dureford, with the consent of master Robert, the vicar, concerning tythes; by which the abbot and convent are to be immune and quit from the payment of all tythes on their possessions hitherto acquired, save those on all gardens except on the old garden which is within the close of the monastery of Dureford, on which the abbot and convent have not hitherto paid tythe. In recompense, the abbot and convent are to pay yearly in the greater Church of Petersfield 30 to the said rector, to which they have bound themselves and all their goods, submitting themselves to the jurisdiction of the bishops of Winchester and Chichester for the performance of the same.
August 1265.
Endorsed.
(1) Delyver this to Mr Doctor Overton att Chichester, [William Overton was Treasurer of Chichester Cathedral from 1567 to 1580 when he became Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield till his death in 1609].
(2) This coppie I (presumably William Day) had sent from Dr Wright, B. of Coventrie and Lichefeild. [Robert Wright was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1632 - 1643].

This deed is described in the Victoria County History, Hampshire, vol. III p.93 with a reference to Cott. MS. Vesp. E. XXIII, f.24d.
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