Calendar of Patent Rolls (PRO C66)

7.9.1321 (Monday 7 September 1321)

document 12600030

minister in Thanet inspeximus and confirmation of a composition made between Rich abbot of Abyndon and the convent thereof and Jn de Campeden prior of Colne and the convent thereof dated at Colne by Robt de Veer earl of Oxford patron of Colne pr kalends of .4.1321 and also dated at Abyndon by the abbot and convent in chapter pr nones of .4.1321 viz the prior and convent of Colne may receive monks from where they choose and they shall not be compelled to receive anyone from Abyndon and such monks of Abyndon as have been sent there may return to Abyndon within three years and the convent of Colne may elect a prior out of their own house but the abbot of Abyndon is to have the right of visitation and for this the priory of Colne quitclaims to the abbey of Abyndon all its right in the church of Kensyngton in the diocese of London by privy se al