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Harley MS 3669

Record Id:

040-002049501

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049501

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3669

Title:

Cartulary of St Mary’s Church, Crich

Scope & Content:

f. 1v: Added list of fees to be discharged at Pentecost (?).

ff. 2r–4r: Added account in English of a grant of King Edward III to William of Wakebridge, headed ‘Out of the Registre of Chriche’ (paper, 16th century).

f. 5v: Verses derived from Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, A Paraphrase of Part of the Book of Ecclesiastes 1.19–20: ‘What hath been but is now the like hereafter shall / what new thinge hath so sure a ground that deredeth not a fall’, added in a 16th-century hand.

ff. 6r–11v: Kalendar.

ff. 12r–87v: Cartulary of deeds relating to the foundation and endowment by William of Wakebridge of two chantries. Includes charters dated until at least 1368.

ff. 88r–95r: Deeds relating to the foundation of a third chantry at Annesley, Nottinghamshire, 1350–68.

f. 95v: ‘An Inventory of the goods of the Chauntree of Saint Nicholas and Saint Catherine in Criche received by me scilicet John Mariott 22º die Julii Anno Domini 1524ᵗᵒ’, added in a 16th-century hand.

ff. 96r–97r: Added list of regulations for the chantries, presumably extracted from the will of William of Wakebridge (written in the first person).

ff. 98r–103v: Kalendar. Includes added obits in a late 14th-century hand with mainly members of the Wakebrug family (benefactors of the church mentioned throughout the manuscript), including William of Wakebrug (d. 1349), but also for Roger de Chestyrfeld, etc., and further annotations in a late 15th-century hand.

ff. 104r: Added medical recipe, ‘For the stone strangury & colyke’.

ff. 104v–105r: Added rental for the chantry of Sts Nicholas and Catherine, 1460.

f. 106r: Added list of expenses for the chantry.

Decoration:

Kalendars use initials in blue with red pen-flourishing.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049501

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3669 : Cartulary of St Mary’s Church, Crich

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3671]/040-002049501

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1360

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

Late 14th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 315 × 200 mm (written area 225 × 135 mm).

Foliation: ff. i + 106 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end + 1 unfoliated paper leaf after f. 4; f. i is after f. 1).

Script: Gothic (ff. 6r–11v; 98r–103v); gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum; ff. 1 and 105 are partially covered with thicker parchment that was probably part of a former binding.

Custodial History:

Origin:

St Mary’s Church, Crich, Derbyshire.

Provenance:

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.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), iii, 50.

J. C. Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, 4 vols (n.p., 1879), iv, 35–50.

J. C. Cox, ‘A Parochial Chartulary of the 14th century’, The Ancestor, 6 (1903), 103–19.

A. Saltman, The Cartulary of the Wakebridge Chantries at Crich, Derbyshire Archaeological Society, Records Series, 6 (1976).

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. 289.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Crich, Derbyshire, 12th century-