EN/EW/3313

verbatim

{. . .} et precipue causa ecclesiae Johannis Baptisti quam in honore reverentia et devotione semper intendebam et intendam mantenere, protegere et fovere, cujus caemeterium per violentiam motionis arenae ut predicitur fere usque ad fundamentum ipsius ecclesiae adeo est denudata et destructa quod multorum ossa defunctorum ibidem humata videntur per ventorum violentiam de terra evulsa penitus et circa {. . .}

summary

. . . And especially for the sake of the church of John the Baptist which I intended and intend always to maintain, protect and favour in honour, reverence and devotion, the cemetery of which, through the violent movement of the sand, has been laid so bare and destroyed, to the foundation of the very church, as is said, that the buried bones of many of the dead are seen there . . .

folio/page

xxxv

charter period

None

charter date range

10/12/1380 - ??

document reference

DO/EW/2527