Add MS 15667

CARTULARY of the Abbey of St. Aldhelm of Malmesbury, co. Wilts. The contents are as follows:-

Charters to and from the monastery, chiefly in the time of John [Wallensis], Abbot [1222-1246]; they are numbered clxiii.-clxxxvi., and have formed part, apparently, of another register [of which a portion is in the library of Sir Tho. Phillipps, Bart.] , f.1;- Table of the charters included between fol.

10-12b., and fol. 110-120b. of the volume, ff. 8. 13b.;-Various charters, temp. Hen. III., f. 10;-Charter from Kin. Eadwi to the monastery of Maldumesbyrig, of lands in Brokeberga[Brokenburgli, co. Wilt.], dat.a^o.r. 1, 956; [v. Cod. Dipl. Ævi Saxon., tom. ii. p. 336,1, with the boundaries of the manor, translated into Latin from the Saxon, f. 12;-Statement of the spiritualities and temporalities of the monastery, shewing the several portions of the Abbot, Chamberlain. Sacristan, Infirmarius, Pitanciarius and Precentor, f. 13;-Confirmation by Richard [Weathershed], Abp. of Canterbury, of a grant by Robert [de Byngham], Bishop of Salisbury, to the Abbey of Malmesbury, of tithes of Creddewell [Crudwell, co. Wilt.], dat. 1230, f. 15b.;-

Certificate by John [Peckham], Abp. of Canterbury, of the authenticity of the title of the Abbey to certain portions and pensions, in the diocese of Salisbury, dat. 1285, f. 16 b.;-Statutes of the first Parliament of Westminster, 3 Edw. l., in French, f. 18;-Regulations for assessing and collecting, the aid of a xvth of goods, 3 Edw. l., Fr., f. 26 b. ;-Statute relating to Jews [4 Edw. 1.?], Fr., f. 28;-Statutes of Gloucester, Fr., with the preliminary royal ordinances, in Latin [6 Edw. l.] , f. 30 b.;-The boundaries of various manors belonging to the Abbey, Lat., f. 33;-Statute intitled Provisiones de Alerton," 20 Hen. III., f. 36 b. ;-Genealogy of the family of Daunteseye, with report of a suit relating to the manor, f. 38 b.;-Statute of mortmain [7 Edw. l.], f. 39;-Latin verses on the virtues of the herb Scabius, I secundum Album Cardinalem' [Albus Viterbiensis? ob. 1245], f. 36 b.; -Charters to and from the Abbey of Malmesbury, during the government of William [de Colerne], Abbot, 1260-1296, numbered from ii. to ccliii., f 40. Then follow in a later hand, Pleas relating to the right of holding view of frankpledge, assise of bread, etc., claimed by the Abbey in Puriton [co. Wilt.], 5 Edw. I., f. 121 ;-Several charters, temp. Edw. III., f. 121 b.;-Pleas relating to claims of land by the Abbey, 37-39 Edw. III., f. 122 b. On vellum, the greater portion written at the end of the xiiith century, with additions of the xivth. Imperfect at the commencement. It formerly belonged to Evan Seys, Serjeant at Law, temp. Car. II., and was unknown to Tanner. Quarto. [15,667.]