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Topic analysis

The whole corpus

9,843Documents
0Discrete acts
7,157People named
215Mapped places
30Years covered

Frequency over time

yeardecadereignmonth

Scanned coverage: Patent Rolls 1216–1486, Close Rolls 1231–1395 (dashed markers). A fall-off after 1486 reflects Patent rolls not yet ingested, not a decline in activity.

Where

Top counties: Middlesex (2455) · Berkshire (1299) · Gascony (840) · Oxfordshire (622) · Hampshire (513) · Wiltshire (503) · Surrey (294) · Gloucestershire (247)

What kind of act

When in the year

Sample entries

  1. 1216-11-15, Marlborough

    Presentation of Henry le Bretun to the church of St. Michael, Kery, in king's gift by reason of his conquest of the lands of L. sometime prince North Wales, in South Wales; directed to the bishop of St. Davids.

  2. 1216-11-15, Marlborough

    The like of Thomas de Merleberg, chaplain, to the church of St. Peter, in the king's gift by reason of the voidance of the bishopric of ; directed to the dean of Merleberg.

  3. 1216-11-20, Marlborough Knights William

    Mandate to John son of Geoffrey, justiciary of Ireland, to send one of his with power to surrender in his name to the king the castles late of Marshal, earl of Pembroke, in Ireland, in order that the king may them to the right heirs of the earl. To Master H. de Mortuo Mari, …

  4. 1216-11-20, Marlborough Knights William

    Mandate to all bailiffs that whenever in England John le Vatlet, who been appealed of the death of Martin Malherbe, be found, he be at once and kept in prison, and it be signified to the king that he been taken. [Jn the maryin For the wife late of Martin Malherbe.]

  5. 1216-11-20, Marlborough Knights William

    Grant to the prioress and nuns of Stratford that they may take their in their wood of Goldhurst a la Claye, which is within the metes the forest of Essex, without view, livery or impediment of the foresters ministers of the forest, provided that they do this without waste.

  6. 1216-11-20, Marlborough Knights William

    Appointment, during pleasure, of Hugh de Fracheham, king's serjeant, the custody of the castle and manor of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

  7. 1216-11-20, Marlborough Knights William

    Mandate to Henry de Weingham, or his co-escheator in the county of to deliver the castle and manor to him.

  8. 1216-11-20, Marlborough Knights William

    Safe-conduct, until St. Nicholas, for Maylgun, son of Maylgun, and his and household, returning from the king's court to his own parts. [Cancelled.] Because otherwise below.

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