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DocRefNo	CR0162/184
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Title	2 copies in Latin and English of an Extract from the Patent Rolls of 3 Henry V, of a licence to give in mortmain, granted by Letters Patent of 20 Richard II, to Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Nottingham and Marshal of England, that he might give his property at Epworth in the Island of Axholm, Lincs., to found a monastic house of Carthusians, and 100 acres of land at Epworth be assigned to John Moreby the Prior of the said house, in perpetual frank almoign, so by the same letters patent the King granted a licence to the Abbot of the Monastery of St. Nicholas of Angiers, of the Order of St. Benedict, to assign to the aforesaid Prior, the manor or priory of Monks Kirby (no longer maintained), in Warwickshire, with the manors of Newbold-on-Avon, Coppeston and Walton in the same county.
Date	6th Mar. 1744/1745
Description	By the Letters Patent of 3 Henry V, these grants were confirmed, and the custody of the lapsed Priory of Monks Kirby (restored to the Monastery of St. Nicholas of Angiers in 1399) was returned, and permission was given to the then Earl Marshal, John, to give a piece of land measuring 40 feet by 40 perches, in Coliercope in the parish of Ouston in his park of Mellelwode, and a yearly rental of 20 marks from his marsh at Epworth, to the Priory of Axholm. Endorsed: examined 6th March, 1744.

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