The Stonor letters and papers, 1290-1483; ed. for the Royal historical society, from the origial documents in the Public record office, by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford.

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1919.

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England -- Social life and customs

Stonor family.

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"The Stonor letters and papers, 1290-1483; ed. for the Royal historical society, from the origial documents in the Public record office, by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ACA1723.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2025.

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15. WRIT CONCERNING THE ALIEN PRIORY OF STEVENTON 20 JANUARY, 1378

Steventon Priory was a cell of Bec Abbey. It was granted by Richard II to Westminster Abbey in 1399 (Monasticon, vi, 1044). From Ch. Misc., 37, i, 6.

Ricardus, dei gratia Rex Anglie et Francie et dominus Hibernie, Vic. Oxon. et Berks. salutem. Precipimus tibi quod in execucione brevis nostri nuper tibi directi de capiendo sufficientem securitatem pro qua respondere volueris a quolibet Priore, et procuratore possessiones virorum religiosorum alienigenarum extra regnum Anglie commorancium occupante, in balliva tua, quod ipsi nulla bona seu catalla in Prioratibus et possessionibus predictis existencia seu eisdem qualitercunque spec|tancia aliqualiter elongabunt, set quod ea integraliter conservabunt et custodient absque subtraccione seu diminucione aliquali inde facienda, supersedeas omnino quoad Priorem de Styventon, et districcionem si quam eidem Priori feceris, vel si que bona et catalla ejusdem in manum nostram ceperis occasione predicta, sine dilacione relaxes et restituas eidem, ipsum ea de causa non molestando aliqualiter seu gravando. T. venerabile patre T. Exon. episcopo, Thesaurario nostro, apud Westm. xx^o die Januar. anno regni nostri primo, per ipsum Thes. Hanleye.