1342-08-21, Tower of London

Pardon date: inferred Regnal year 16 Edward III · Edward III · Patent Rolls · Membrane 20

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Dated in source: “Aug. 21” · Place: Tower of London (Middlesex)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 66, membrane 20 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

Pardon to the prior and convent of Sempyngham for appropriating of in the time of Edward I after the publication of the statute of mortmain the vicarage of the church of Fordham, co. Cambridge, said to be of their advowson, without the licence of the said king, Edward II or the king that now is; and licence for them to retain the same appropriated. By p.s.

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