1341-07-18, Tower of London

Mandate date: inferred Regnal year 15 Edward III · Edward III · Patent Rolls · Membrane 36

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Dated in source: “July 18” · Place: Tower of London (Middlesex)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 66, membrane 36 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

Mandate to John de Canford of Walhop, escheator in the counties of Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, to permit queen Philippa to have the custody of the abbey of St. Augustine, Bristol, if the advowson of that abbey pertain to her as lady of the castle, town and barton of. Bristol, lately granted to her in dower by letters patent, with the knighta fees, advowsons, wardships, marriages and escheats, and of the temporalities of the abbey, not meddling in any way with the custody contrary to the tenor of the letters patent and delivering any issues received therefrom to her ministers.

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