Sloane MS 747

Missenden Abbey; Buckinghamshire: Chartulary: late 15th cent.

includes:

• f. 15 Henry Missendene, Abbat of Missenden: Form of his election: 1462.: Lat.
• f. 44 b Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln: Appropriation of Glatton Church to Missenden abbey: 1429/30.: Lat.
• f. 44 b Glatton, Huntingdonshire: Appropriation of the church to Missenden Abbey: 1429/30.: Lat.
• ff. 45 b, 47, 52 b, 55, 55 b, 58 b, 89 b Medicine: Charms and Receipts. Orationes et receptæmedica.: 10th-18th centt.
• f. 48 b Meteorology: Rules for the weather after thunder: late 15th cent.: Lat.
• f. 49 b Art. Treatises: Colours for painting or staining: late 15th cent.
• f. 49 b John Scogan, Court Jester to Edward IV: Distich: late 15th cent.: Lat.
• ff. 52 b, 60 b Weights and Measures: De ponderibus et mensuris: 15th-17th cent.
• f. 54 England General Chronicles and History: List of kings, from William Bastard to Henry VII., with duration of their reigns: 15th cent.
• f. 55 b Henry Honor, Abbat of Missenden, county Buckinghamshire: Note of election in: 1462.
• f. 55 b Henry Antoni, Abbat of Missenden: Note of election in: 1436.
• f. 56 b Thomas Rotherham, Bishop of Lincoln: Royal letters to, that H. Mussendene should peaceably enjoy possession of Missenden Abbey: [1472].
• f. 57 Magic: Charm against the falling sickness: late 15th cent.
• f. 57 Theology: The ten commandments, with lists of virtues and vices: late 15th cent.
• f. 57 b Robert Riseborghe, Abbat of Missenden, county Buckinghamshire: Letter to, from Edward IV., respecting his resignation of the Abbacy: 1472.
• f. 57 b Edward IV of England: Letters to Canon R. Riseborghe, respecting his claim to the Abbacy of Missenden: [1472].: copy.
• f. 58 Edward IV of England: Letters to T. Hampden, Sheriff of cos. Bedf.and Berks., conc. Missenden Abbey: [1472].: Copy.
• f. 59 b John Witton, Rector of Ashridge Priory, county Buckinghamshire: Letter to, from the Bishop of Lincoln: 1482.: Lat.
• f. 59 b John Russell, Bishop successively of Rochester and of Lincoln: Letter to J. Witton conc. Missenden Abbey: 1482.: Lat.: Copy.
• f. 60 Husbandry: Abstract of Act of Parliament " for kepynge vp of howsis for husbandry": 1488-9.
• f. 60 b Bread: Weights for weighing bread: late 15th cent.
• f. 62 b Maximilian I; Emperor of Germany: Proclamation of the articles concluded betw. him and Henry VII. of England: 1502.: Lat. and Engl.
• f. 64 b Thomas Hampden, Sheriff of county Buckinghamshire: Royal letters to put R. Ryseburgh in possession of Missenden Abbey: 1467 or 1482.
• f. 66 Proverbs: Proverbs: late 15th cent.: Lat. and Engl.
• f. 66 b Thomas Englefield, Justice of the Common Pleas: Obligation with William, Abbat of Missenden, to allow him to present to the Church of Shiplake on the next vacancy: 1526/7.
• f. 66 b William Honor, Abbat of Missenden: Obligation with Justice Englefield to allow him to present to the Church of Shiplake on the next vacancy: 1527.
• f. 66 b Shiplake, Oxfordshire: Obligation of the Abbat of Missenden to allow Justice T. Englefield to have the next presentation to the Church of: 1526/7.
• f. 68 St James Abbey; near Northampton: Correspondence of the Abbats with Henry, Abbat of Missenden, giving notice of a visitation to his Abbey: 1506.: Lat.
• f. 68 Thornton Abbey; Lincolnshire: Correspondence of the Abbats with Henry, Abbat of Missenden, giving notice of a visitation to his monastery: 1506.: Lat.
• f. 68 St. Mary de Pratis Abbey; near Leicester: Correspondence of the Abbat with Henry, Abbat of Missenden, giving notice of a visitation to his monastery: 1506.: Lat.
• f. 68 b William Gery, of Great Missenden: Will: 1505/6.: Lat.
• f. 69 John Byssetur, Curate of Biddlesden, county Buckinghamshire: Certificate that N. Kynge is a bachelor: 1506.: Lat.
• f. 69 Nicholas King, of Biddlesden, county Buckinghamshire: Certificate that he is a bachelor from J. Byssetur: 1506.: Lat.
• f. 71 Elizabeth Pygot, Patroness of Missenden Abbey: Licence to the Prior and convent to elect an Abbat in place of the late W. Honor: [1528].: Lat.: Copy.
• f. 76 b Astrology: Astrological rules respecting the time of birth: late 15th cent.: Lat.
• f. 77 Richard and Agnes Laurence: Certificate of their lawful marriage in Wichenford parish church: 1490/1.
• f. 78 Shiplake, Oxfordshire: Value of the parsonage: late 15th cent.
• f. 78 b Henry VII of England: "Orationes in missis dicendæ pro" ejus " bono, felici ac prospero statu": late 15th cent.
• f. 81 b Jewels: List of "jocalia," bel. to Missenden Abbey: late 15th cent.
• f. 82 Ralph Mareschalle, Abbat of Missenden, county Buckinghamshire: Note of his death,: 9 Sept., 1374.
• f. 84 b William Smyth, Bishop of Lincoln: Letter to the Abbat of Missenden, of his intention to visit the Abbey: 1505.: Lat.
• f. 85 Nicholas Iwardeby: Rental at Great Missenden, Lady Day: 1451.: Lat.
• f. 88 b John Skelton, Poet Laureate: Satyrical poem, against the excesses and vices of the period: temp. Hen. VII.
• f. 90 Sir John St. John, Sheriff of counties Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire: Precept to the bailiff of the three hundreds of Aylesbury to convene a panel of a jury before the Justices itinerant: 1502.: Lat.
• f. 90 b John Iwardeby: Licence as patron of Missenden Abbey to the prior and convent to elect an abbat in place of R. Rysburghe, deprived: 1462.: Lat.
• f. 95 Poetry ENGLISH: Moral poem, beg. As y can walke upon a day: late 15th cent.
• f. 97 Missenden Abbey; Buckinghamshire: Articuli pro reformatione compertorum in visitatione ordinaria Willielmi, Episcopi Lincolniensis: 1505.: Lat.
• f. 97 William Smyth, Bishop of Lincoln: Articuli pro reformatione compertorum in visitatione ordinaria in Abbatia de Missenden: 1505.: Lat.