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Term: ANNUA PENSIONE
Definition: An annua pensione is a legal term that refers to a royal writ that demands payment of a yearly pension from an abbey or prior for the king's chaplain named in the writ.
Simply put, it is a document that requires a religious institution to pay a yearly amount of money to a chaplain chosen by the king.
ANNUA PENSIONE
An annual pension demanded by a royal writ from an abbey or prior for the king's chaplain named in the writ.
King Henry VIII issued a de annua pensione writ demanding a yearly payment from a local abbey for the support of his chaplain.
This example illustrates how a de annua pensione writ was used by the king to demand a yearly payment from an abbey for the support of his chaplain. The writ was a legal document that allowed the king to collect a regular income from religious institutions.