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I. Papers chiefly relating to London: 5. "Prioratus sive domus monialium sancte Helene London", 1518-1531

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MS. Rawl. D. 809, fol. 15

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"A booke of arrerages of rentes and ffermes dewe to dame Marie Rollesley, prioresse of the seid house, and to the convent of the same, and remaynyng in the handes of dyverse persones tenaunts and ffermers within named not yet paied, which booke was delyvered to the saied lady prioresse by John Dodyngtone, auditor assigned of the landes and tenementes and other possessions apperteynyng to the seid house, to thintent that the saied lady prioresse by thadvise of her counsell maye call apone the seid persones tenaunts and ffermers for payment of the same ther arrerages".

John Lark, clerk, was the late steward and receiver, and the collector was one Richard Berde. The sum total of the arrears at the end of the 22nd year of Hen. VIII was £84 3s. 11d., of which there remained due at the end of the 24th year £62 16s. 3 1/2d.

Dates

  • Creation: 1518-1531

Extent

1 item

Language of Materials

  • English

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MS. Rawl. D. 809, fol. 15

Custodial History

This MS. is noticed in the Monasticon, iv. 552, where it is said to be in the possession of Richard Gough. There is nothing to show that it belonged to Gough’s collection, and it was found among the miscellaneous loose papers of Rawlinson’s of which this volume is composed, and which were bound up about or after the year 1862.

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