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Harley MS 743
- Record Id:
- 040-002046572
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046572
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000f9
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 743
- Title:
- John Lakenheath, Register of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
- Scope & Content:
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f. 2r: 16th-century notes.
f. 3v: Prologue by John Lakenheath giving his rationale for the register and its layout; translated in Thomson, Archives (1980), pp. 23–24. A 14th- or 15th-century hand adds the heading ‘Re. Iohannis Lakynghethe’.
ff. 4r–51r: Alphabetical index of manors, corresponding to evidences found in earlier registers and among the abbot’s charters. Some additions from the early 15th century.
ff. 52r–53v: Bury abbots with their dates, up to the death of Abbot Brinkley (1379).
ff. 54r–55v: English kings, up to the accession of Edward III (1327).
ff. 56v–74r: Royal charters granting and confirming the abbey’s liberties, Cnut to Edward III, the last dated 1344. At the top of f. 68r, ‘Registrum Iohannis Ingham’, in a 15th-century hand.
ff. 74r–122v: Pleas, taxations, fines, excerpted from the royal rolls.
ff. 123r–129v: Surveys of fees and knight-service owed the abbey in various manors, arranged topographically.
f. 131r: Two charters added in the 15th-century.
ff. 133r–140v: Surveys, similar to ff. 123r–129v.
ff. 140r–148v: Charters and documents relating to abbey manors.
ff. 149r–257v: Solomon of Rochester, Itinerary of 1286 (edited by Powell).
ff. 258r–259r: Husting courts, 1376.
ff. 260r–267: Abbatial customs, John Northwold to John Brinkley (1362–63).
f. 267v: Charter instituting Maurice of Windsor as abbey steward, issued by Abbot Albold.
ff. 268r–270v: Confirmation by Edward I of the division of estates between the abbot and convent.
f. 271r: Cellarer’s liberties in Babwell.
ff. 271v–273v: Charters of Abbot Hugh I, and indenture between Bury St Edmunds and the nuns of Thetford, 1367, confirmed by the bishop of Norwich.
ff. 273v–274r: Pleas, 1239.
ff. 274v–278v: Various charters
f. 278v: Note on the succession of Gilbert Blund.
ff. 279r–279v: Fines etc., from the royal rolls from the time of Edward III.
ff. 280r–280v: Two memoranda.
f. 1 is a detached leaf from Harley MS 1005 (Thomson, Archives, 1980, no. 1293), 204 in the medieval foliation; customs, f. 1v blank.
The manuscript originally consisted of ff. 3 and 52–279, with ff. 4–51 being slightly later additions; the contents of ff. 268r–279v are also later additions.
Contents revised from Thomson, Archives, pp. 129–30.
Decoration:
In the index, headings are in red, as are numbers of folios and charters. Some red headings elsewhere in the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046572", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 743: John Lakenheath, Register of Bury St Edmunds Abbey" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046572 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 743 : John Lakenheath, Register of Bury St Edmunds Abbey - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0743]/040-002046572
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1379
- End Date:
- 1381
- Date Range:
- 1379-1381
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 315 × 205 mm (written area 235 × 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. (i)+280. Medieval foliation 1 (modern 52, i.e. opening leaf of the register proper)–206 (259); later medieval numbers 208 (207 excised; modern 260)–223 (275); later hands, 224 (276)–228 (280).
Script: Gothic cursive. The main hand is the autograph of John Lakenheath (see Thomson, Archives, 1980, pp. 129–30).
Binding: British Museum, rebound 22 May 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
John of Lakenheath (d. 1381), keeper of the barony for the Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr, Bury St Edmunds (Thomson, Archives, 1980, pp. 23–25).
Provenance:
Sir Edmund Bacon (d. 1649), second baronet (Watson, Library, p. 339).
Edward Stillingfleet (d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian. Listed by Le Neve in Bodleian MS Rawl. D.888, f. 20v (Watson, Library, 1980, p. 339).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), i, 430.
M.R. James, On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury (Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1895) https://archive.org/details/abbeyofsedmundat00jame, p. 96.
Edgar Powell, A Suffolk Hundred in the Year 1283 (Cambridge: University Press, 1910), https://archive.org/details/cu31924030265528.
M.R. James, ‘Bury St. Edmunds Manuscripts’, The English Historical Review, 41.162 (1926), 251–60 https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XLI.CLXII.251, p. 259.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A149.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 316.
Rodney M. Thomson, The Archives of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk Records Society, 21 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1980), no. 1283.
G.R.C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 2010), no. 97.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 1020-1539
Lakenheath, John, Benedictine monk, died 15 June 1381 - Related Archive Descriptions:
- Harley MS 1005