Royal MS 11 B IX

CHARTULARY Of the monastery of S. Andrew, North. ampton, a cell of the Cluniac House of Charité-sur- Loire. The contents comprise over four hundred and eighty charters, from those of Simon de Saint Lis, first Earl of Northampton and Huntingdon, who died before 1109, to the time of Prior Bernard, 1272-1288. All these are written in one hand of temp. Edw. I. The last charter (f. 131 b) is incomplete, and is followed by an early 14th cent. summary of contents. Fragments of another summary appear to be on f. 3. The latter part of the volume and some of the carlier leaves are mutilated at the edges, the MS. having suffered much damage in the fire of 1731. Copies of all the charters are probably contained in the later (15th cent.) chartulary in Cotton MS. Vesp. E. XVII. Bumt fragments at the end, which may have been additions to the chartulary or fragments from the binding, are as follows:-

(a) Two leaves of the Brute chronicle in English, beginning with the accession of Henry I and ending land consentyd'. In a 15th cent. hand. The text resembles Harley MS. 2182, (cf. 17 D. XXI). ff. 134, 133;-(b) Fragments of quictus of Thomas More and John Euerdon, accounting for the custody of the priory, being in the king's hands as an alien house during war with France, 20-22 Rich. II [1396-1399], and copies of charters of Henry IV and V dealing with the revenues of the priory, &c. ff. 135-139, 142-144; -(c) Small fragment of a charter of one of the Edwards. f. 140;-

(d) Fragment concerning the translation of Edward the Confessor. These last two in early 15th cent. hands. f. 141 ;-(e) Fragment of uncertain character, i4th-i5th cent. f. 145. Vellum (except f. 1); ff. 145. About 81/2 in. x 61/2 in. (as mounted, 111/2 in. x 83/4 in.). Late XIII cent. Sec. fol. 'archiepiscopi'. Initials, where inserted, in red. On f. 2 is a monogram apparently including the letters TOIOBAV surmounted by a cross. The MS. after. wards belonged (f. 4) to John Theyer de Couper's hill com. civitatis Gloucestriae". Theyer sale-cat. no. 107, ; CMA. 6528.