1479-12-06, Woburn

Recital of letters patent dated 6 August, 22 Edward III, founding the chapel of St. George within the castle of Wyndesore; grant, in furtherance of a grant by Henry VI, by authority of the Parliament at Westminster, 8 Henry VI, to the king's kinsman Richard, bishop of Salisbury, the warden or dean, and the canons of the said chapel that they shall henceforth form one corporate body and shall have perpetual succession and & common seal, with power to acquire lands, liberties and other possessions and to implead and be impleaded ; licence for the king's kinsman John, duke of Suffolk, and Elizabeth his wife, the king's sister, to grant to them in mortmain the manor or lordship of Grobery alias Grovebury alias Leighton Bosard, co. Bedford, held in chief; licence for them to acquire in mortmain lands, rents or advowsons to the value of 500l. yearly; and grant that they shall be quit of fines or fees for any letters patent, charters oF writs of the king. [Monasticon. VI. 1860.] By K.