This manuscript may also be referred to as Cotton Charter XIII 4. Order as Cotton Charter XIII.4. Contents: Pontifical offices and blessings: the functions performed by a bishop. Face: Membranes 1-3: Orders for performing a tonsure, the consecration of the paten and chalice, the blessing of ...
Contents: A portable physician's folding almanac consisting of a calendar, tables and diagrams: ff. 1r-8r: Kalendarium for January to December; f. 9r: Diagram of a Zodiac man with animals; f. 9v: Explanation of the calendar; f. 10r: Diagram of lunar and solar eclipses; f. 11r: Table of mov...
Foundation charter of Elsing Spital, Cripplegate, London
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Foundation charter of Elsing Spital, Cripplegate, London, by William de Elsing, citizen of London, endowing the hospital with lands in the parishes of St Mary, Aldermanbury, St Lawrence Jewry, St Alphege, and St Martin, and setting down its constitution, including rules for the religious service...
William de Moreville, constable of the king of Scots, gives and grants, and by his charter establishes, to James [son of Lambin] of Loudoun, the land of Loudoun, by stated bounds, to hold outwith forest and free from forest, of William and his heirs, in feu and heritage, for the service of one kn...
Contemporary copy of the Constitutions of the Council of Lambeth, promulgated by Boniface [of Savoy], archbishop of Canterbury. Dated 3 Ides May [13 May], anno Pont. Alex. IV. 7, anno 45 Stev. III [1261]. Witnessed by H[enry de Sandwich], bishop of London, W[alter de Cantilupe], bishop of Worce...
This manuscript is also referred to as Cotton Galba Charter XIV 4 or Cotton Charter XIV 4. Order as Cotton Roll XIV 4. Contents: A fragment consisting of two membranes from a genealogical roll chronicle. On the face is the genealogy begins at Aethelred II (r. 978-1016) and his two wives, Elfl...
Charter of Robert [Sherborne], bishop of Chichester, founding the 'Bursalis' prebend in his cathedral, to be held by a Doctor or Bachelor of Divinity, of at the least by a Master of Arts, of the College of St Mary of Winchester [New College], Oxford. Witnessed by William Fleschmonger [Dean of C...
Memorandum of a proposal made by the proctor of the prior of St Andrews, before the abbot of Balmerino, as judge appointed by the pope, to settle a dispute between the said prior [and convent?] rector of the church of Haddington and the master, prioress and nuns of Haddington, respecting teinds.
Agreement between Coupar Angus Abbey and the church of Blair
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Agreement between Coupar Angus Abbey and the church of Blair, in the presence of Master Ranulf, archdeacon of St Andrews and Laurence, official of St Andrews, commissioned by Sir William, bishop of St Andrews, in the Synod at Perth, whereby the monks of Coupar shall pay annually to the church of...
