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Glastonbury Abbey

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Date: 705-1600
Places:
  • Glastonbury, Somerset
Functions, occupations and activities: Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C59620 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O61937 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
10th-16th cent: charters from 681 [10th cent copy] and other deeds 10th-16th cent, cartularies 13th-16th cent, registers 13th-14th cent, inquistion of manors 1189, legal papers, accounts and court rolls 13th-16th cent,
Longleat House
K. Harris, Glastonbury Abbey Records at Longleat House: a summary list (Somerset Record Soc, 1991)
NRA 36343 Glastonbury

See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [104a]; Davis, Medieval Cartularies (nos. 433-
2
0705-1347: charters and other deeds
Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
DD\SAS/C795/BK2,3,6,PD30,50,PR501
NRA 28398 Somerset Arch Soc
3
12th-14th cent: misc deeds and agreements rel to disputes with dean and chapter of Wells 13th-14th cent, incl rel to election of abbot 1274
Wells Cathedral Library and Archives
See HMC 3rd Rep, pp351-2,358,360,362; HMC 12: Wells I, p xi; Wells II, pp 550,567,570,594,617 (nos 19,9
4
13th cent: inventory of charters
Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre
MS R.5.33, fos 77-87
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (438)
5
14th-16th cent: cartulary, terriers of lands in Somerset and Devon, register of extents and rentals, abstract from court rolls rel to lands and manors owned by Abbey
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 22934, Eg 3034, 3134, 3321, Harl 142
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (nos 440, 449-451); Guide to Family and Estate Collections A-K [12i];
6
1236: settlement of tithe dispute
Salisbury Cathedral Archives
See HMC 55: Var Col I, p342
7
1532: almoner's account
Gloucestershire Archives
Fm110.4.1
NRA 6282 Somerset
8
15th cent-16th cent: Somerset court rolls 1432-1527 and accounts 15th cent
North Yorkshire County Record Office
ZJX/3/19/97-100, 207-16
NRA 33897

See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [12c]; Guide to North Yorkshire Record Office
9
terrier of lands in Berkshire and Wiltshire c1515-20
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Harley MSS 3961, 641, fos 116-206, 651, fos 185-91, 1916, 1918, 5958
See CE Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972); Davis Medieval Cartularies (453); Monstic Research Bulletin 3,p1
10
1592: custumal (copy)
Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
DD\SG/22
NRA 65