Document 2/83/2 (Canterbury, Reg. B, fos. 304v-305r )
- Description
- Prior Thomas [Ringmer] and the chapter of Christ Church, Canterbury write to Alexander, king of Scotland, relating that G., a monk of Arbroath, had recently visited Canterbury bearing letters from the king regarding his proposed charity, and that the chapter of Christ Church agreed to undertake to feed thirteen of the poor every Tuesday, deservedly commending the devotion of so great a king which he displays towards the church and the glorious martyr Thomas, on the terms arranged between the chapters of Canterbury and Arbroath by their respective letters-patent.
- Firm date
- Saturday 7 August 1283
- Dating Notes
- Saturday after feast of St Oswald the king and martyr, 1283
- Place date (modern)
- Canterbury
- Place date (document)
- Cant’
- Related Place
- Canterbury
- Source for Data Entry
- Library of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Canterbury, Register B, fos. 304v-305r
- Trad. ID
- Canterbury, Reg. B, fos. 304v-305r
- Calendar number
- 2/83/2
- Charter type
- Letter (correspondence)
- Language
- Latin
- Notes
- Barrow, ‘A Scottish Collection at Canterbury’, SHR xxxi (1952), 16-17