Add MS 15668

Cartulary of the Priory of Newent or Noent, co. Gloucester, a cell of the Benedictine Abbey of Cormeilles, in Normandy, diocese of Lisieux; containing a register of charters to and from the monastery, with rentals, pleas, and other documents relating to it; compiled chiefly in the reign of Edw. I. The principal articles are:

Note of fines received from various inhabitants of Newent, in the time of Simon Gopillers, Prior, f.1; - Notices of criminals hung, 19, 20 Edw. I., f.1 b.; - Payment of the xvth to the King, for the Holy Land, 1291, f.1 b.; - Norwich taxation, relative to the Priory, f.1 b.; - Answers of Edw. I. to the articles of grievances presented by the clergy, 1285, f.2 b.; - Plea respecting the advowson of Martley, co. Worc., 19 Edw. I., f.3; - Final concord relating to the advowson of Pauntley, co. Glouc., 15 Joh., f.3 b.;- Succession of English Sovereigns from William the Conquerer to Edw. II., with notes of the number of their children, f.3 b.; - Various charters, 1282-1288, f.4; - List of tenants, and notices of their services, f.5 b.; - A rental of the Priory, 1278, f.7; - Charters to and from the Priory, Simon de Gopillers being Prior, 1277-1296, f.9 b.; - Extracts from the Memoranda Rolls and Pipe Rolls, relating to sums due from the Prior for the xvth, granted 23 Edw. I. and 10 Edw. II., f.17 b.; - List of farming utentsils, etc., and their valuation, being stock received by the bailiff of Kingstone, co. Heref., f.17; - Extracts from Pipe Rolls, writs, etc., relating to arrears owing by the Prior for the farm of the monastery, when confiscated during the war, temp. Edw. I.; 11 Edw. II., f.17 b.; - Writs, etc., relating to the claims by the Prior of St. Barbara [Ste. Barbe en Auge] and the Abbot of Cormeilles, of exemption from the King’s custody of their lands in England, during a vacancy, 9-12 Edw. I., f.20 b.; - Writs of Keepers of the King’s Forest, allowing the Prior of Newent to have wood in Yarclesdon, 16-20 Edw. I., f.26 b.; - Sentence on the right of the church of Olveston, co. Glouc., to the tithes of Torkington, co. Glouc., 1241, f.23; - Charter of liberties, 9 Hen. III. [imperf], f.23 b.; - Carta de Foresta, 9 Hen. III., f.24; - Rental of lands of the Priory, f.25; - Statute de terries vendendis at emendis, 18 Edw. I., f.28, b.; - Royal ordinance de libertatibus perquirendis, 27 Edw. I., f.28, b.; - Sheriff’s oath, with writ, f.29; - Various charters, f.29 b.; - Custumary of the Priory, stating the rents and services due from the tenants, f.33; - Similar Custumary for Kingstone, headed, “Redditus et opera homagii tam liberorum quam servorum de Kingeston,” f.40; - Charters relating to the Priory, temp. Edw. I., f.42 b.; - Series of charters relating to the Priory, from 1233 to 1343, at the commencement of which is written, “In hoc volumine continentur omnes carte et scripta prioratus de Newent,” f.45; - The statute of Carlisle, 35 Edw. I., f.84 b.; - Extracts from the Pipe Rolls, intitled, “Solutiones pro domo de Newent, a principio guerrae Edw. III. contra adversarios suos de Francia,” etc., showing the sums paid by it as an alien Priory, 12-19 and 25-50 Edw., f.86; - Pleas for recovery of a rent due from the town of Southampton, 34 Edw. III., f.90 b.; - Receipts from Sir Thomas de Bradestone, for sums paid to him by Peter Dursens, Prior of Newent, for farm due to the King, 22-24 Edw. III., f.94 b.

On vellum, written in the xiiith and xivth centuries. Folio.