1315-08-14, Woburn

Appointment date: inferred Regnal year 9 Edward II · Edward II · Patent Rolls · Membrane 26

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Dated in source: “Aug. 14” · Place: Woburn (Bedfordshire)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 66, membrane 26 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

Appointment of John de Luke, king's serjeant-at-arms, to the custody of castle of Tonebrigge, so long as the castle shall be in the king's hands. archbishop of Canterbury had, at the king's request, accommodated until All Saints day with the castle, late of Gilbert de Clare, earl of and Hertford, tenant in chief, as the archbishop holds the castle the death of the earl, by name of custody as of right of Christ Canterbury, because the castle is held from the archbishop. By p.s.

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