1324-06-27, Tonbridge

Order date: inferred Regnal year 17 Edward II · Edward II · Close Rolls · Membrane 3

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Dated in source: “June 27” · Place: Tonbridge (Kent)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 3 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To John de Hampton. Order to deliver to Hugh le Despenser, earl of Winchester, all the charters in his custody that concern the earl, who has shewn the king that John Giffard, a late rebel, took certain of the earl's charters and muniments at Stanle by force, and carried them thence to Gloucester, and deposited them in the abbey of St. Mary and in the priory of St, Oswald, which charters afterwards came to the hands of the said John de Hampton when he was sheriff of Gloucester. By K.

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