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Add MS 52913
- Record Id:
- 032-002002566
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002002566
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000037.0x000134
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100178830816.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 52913
- Title:
- Record of a court case between Canonsleigh Priory and the parishioners of Morden
- Scope & Content:
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Record of a court case between the abbess and convent of Canonsleigh Priory, Devon, and Thomas Chaplain, William Holbele, John Partridge and others of the poor of Morden, Dorset. The case was held at Salisbury Cathedral by John Maydenheth, Vicar-General of the Bishop of Salisbury, in the consistory court of Salisbury. The roll preserves copies of the key documents, including the testimony of the parishioners and the priory, via their attorneys, and Maydenheth’s ruling.
In a dispute that had lasted since at least 1332, the parishioners claimed the priory had failed to keep to the terms of their appropriation of Morden church. The priory had failed to make a charitable distribution of 20s annually charged upon the rectory, had refused parishioners their customary right to cut wood in the cemetery, and had uncanonically divided the church and its fruits with a layman. On 18 January 1392, Maydenheth ruled in the parishioners' favour regarding the 20s and the abbey was fined £10 which was to be paid to the poor of Morden.
Endorsed: in a late 16th-century hand, ‘Auncient p[ro]cess in the spirituall / courte concerning the convente / of Canon : Leigh’ (membrane 7d).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002002566
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002002566
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100178830816.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1390
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- Last decade of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 2600 x 280 mm.
Arrangement: 7 membranes joined together with a parchment wrapper at the beginning, affixed with two paper notes (ff. i, ii); membrane 3 is added membrane, stitched to the face of membrane 2.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Salisbury, England.
Provenance:
The Consistory Court of Salisbury, 1389.
Sir Thomas Phillipps (b. 1792. d. 1872), 1st Baronet, of Middle Hill: his MS 26698.
Purchased by the British Museum at Sotheby’s, 28-29 June 1965, lot 46, with the aid of a donation from Miss Vera Constance Mabel London, of Birkenhead.
- Publications:
- Catalogue of Additions to Manuscripts in the British Museum 1956-1965, 2 vols (London: British Library, 2000), I, p. 583.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)