Add MS 6160

ESTATE BOOK OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL PRIORY, CANTERBURY: apparently compiled by an obedientary concerned with estate and household management, possibly John de Gore; early 14th cent. (after 1316). Latin. Origin: England. See: Davis, Cartularies, no. 184; D. Oschinsky, ed., Walter of Henley (1971), pp. 15-16;

R. A. L. Smith, Canterbury Cathedral Priory (1943), p. 206. In particular, for the ascription to Gore see A history of Canterbury Cathedral, ed. P. Collinson,

N. Ramsay, and M. Sparks (1995), p. 354, n. 66. Contents list in a late 16th-early 17th cent. hand, referring to the series of red pagination, f. 1v. Material possibly relating to provenance is heavily erased, ff. 10, 16v, 17. The following 16th cent. marginalia occur: (a) references to manorial accounts. ff. 23, 124;- (b) reference to a ledger at Christ Church. f. 42v;- (c) cross reference to pagination. ff. 75, 78v;- (d) 'for Mr John Clark'. f. 113. '153', f. 1v foot and f. 153, presumably a reference to the number of folios. '77', 16th? cent., f. 1v head. For later provenance of this MS. see Add. 6156.

Vellum; ff. 153. 16th-17th cent. pagination in red pencil, uneven numbers only given, 1-13, 19-295 (with text loss before p. 19). Composite manuscript. 190 x 115mm. Gatherings: generally of 12, irregular before f. 17 and after f. 125. The binding is too tight to allow counting at the beginning and end of the volume. Catchwords: ff. 16v, 28v, 52v, 64v, 76v, 100v (cropped). Single columns. Three cursive book scripts: A. ff. 10-16v;- B. ff. 17-125;- C. ff. 125v-147. Art. 3 (imperf. at beginning), and art. 4 begin on, or are the first item in, new quires. Calendar, headings, etc., in red, with some black and blue.

Contents:

1. ff. 2v-8. Calendar, in red, black and blue. Feasts include saints particularly associated with Canterbury, eg. in red, St Salvius, 26 June, St Ositha, 7 Oct. Imperf., f. 8. Heavily annotated in pen and dry point.

2. ff. 10-16v. Miscellaneous items and chartulary section. Catchword, f. 16v, suggests missing material. (a) List of hundreds in the county of Kent.

ff. 10-10v;- (b) List of counties in England, with appropriate episcopal sees, and sees in Wales. ff. 11-11v;- (c) Chartulary section. Latest dated item

10 May 1313 (f. 14v). ff. 12-15;- (d) List of Cinque ports, with service owed to the king. ff. 15v-16;- (e) Duties of Christ Church on the death of a suffragan bishop. ff. 16-16v.

3. ff. 17-42v. Documents concerning the Liberty of Christ Church; 1254-1316. Imperf. at the beginning. The material includes royal charters, records of quo warranto proceedings, etc.

4. ff. 46v-100v. Rental and accounts. (a) Rental. ff. 46-83v. (b) Accounts; 1299-1300. ff. 83v-100v.

5. ff. 100v-101v. Account of goods due to and from the bartoner.

6. ff. 101v-102v. Ordinances made in the exchequer, relating to stock management, etc.; Easter 1300. A slightly different version is printed from Cotton MS. Galba E.IV in Smith., op. cit., pp. 214-215.

7. ff. 102v-103. Memoranda on corn dues, from ordinances made in 1288. Printed in Smith, op. cit., pp. 209-210, from a MS. at Trinity College, Cambridge.

8. ff. 103-104. Questions to be asked at the audit of estate accounts. See Oschinsky, op. cit., p. 252. (a) 'Articuli interrogatorii super compotum immediate post capitulum de herbagio'. ff. 103-103v;- (b) 'Articuli infrascripti diligenter examinentur super compotum prepositorum'. ff. 103v-104.

9. ff. 104-104v. Account of the steward of the Liberty of Christ Church; 1299-1300.

10. ff. 104v-113. Documents relating to the office of almoner of Christ Church. (a) Rental of the almoner for gavelkind rents, etc., in the City of Canterbury; Michaelmas 1302. ff. 104v-109v;- (b) Farm of Seasalter and 'Cotyng'.

ff. 109v-110v;-, (c) Duties of the sub-almoner on Holy Thursday. ff. 110v-111;- (d) Distributions at the obit of Archbishop Lanfranc. ff. 111-111v;- (e) Payments to servants in alms and allowances. ff. 111v-112;- (f) Rents belonging to the almoner. ff. 112-113.

11. f. 113. On gavelkind and socage tenure.

12. ff. 113v-118v. Allowances in kind made by the cellarer; 1305-1306.

13. ff. 118v-124. Regulations for officials in the cellarer's department. For another copy, see Add. 6159, ff. 145-147. (a) On the office of steward of the guest house. ff. 118v-120;- (b) On the office of porter of the outer gate. Two copies. ff. 120v-122, 122-124.

14. ff. 124-125. List of manors held by Christ Church.

15. ff. 125v-147. Ecclesiastical taxation assessments, chiefly for the tenth granted by Pope Nicholas IV, 1292. See Add. 6159, art. 6, where other copies of much of this material occur. (a) Taxation of spiritualities in the diocese of Canterbury. Add. 6159, art. 6(a). ff. 125v-132v;- (b) Taxation of exempt deaneries of the archbishop of Canterbury. Add. 6159, art. 6(b).

ff. 133-135;- (c) Churches appropriated to Christ Church and other religious houses in the diocese of Canterbury. ff. 135v-138;- (d) Taxation of the temporalities of the archbishop and religious houses in the diocese of Canterbury. Add. 6159, art. 6(c). ff. 139-139v;- (e) Taxation of the spiritualities and temporalities of Christ Church. Add. 6159, art. 6(e).

ff. 140-143v;- (f) Assessment for a fifteenth on the movables of Christ Church; 1280-1281. Add. 6159, art. 6(f). ff. 143v-145;- (g) Summa of assessment for all ecclesiastical property in the provinces of Canterbury and York. Add. 6159, ff. 145v-147.

16. ff. 147v, 149. Formulae relating to appointments to office; 15th cent. Badly faded.

17. f. 152v. Memoranda of the election and death of priors; 15th cent.