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Melrose Abbey

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Date: 1100-1900
Places:
  • Melrose, Roxburghshire
Functions, occupations and activities: Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Other monastic orders
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C75527 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O66462 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1124-19th cent: charters 1124-1625, related papers 13th-19th cent
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
NRA 30352 Melrose

See Liber Ste Marie de Melrose, Bannatyne Club, 1837; HMC Estate Guide(70b); List of Gifts and Deposits
2
c1174-1556: grant of wax 1174x99, inspeximus of perambulation of bounds 1427, writ 1556
British Library, Manuscript Collections
3
1446-1657: writs and tacks, mostly rel to teinds 1446-1657
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRA 6184 Montagu-Douglas-Scot

See NRAS1, 1275
4
16th-18th cent: writs, tacks and legal papers 1500-1707
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
NRA 34806 Buccleuch
5
12th cent: Melrose Chronicle
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Monastic Research Bulletin 8, pp25-6
6
late 13th cent: parts of cartulary
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (1167); Monastic Research Bulletin 3, p5
7
15th cent: cartulary
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (1168); Monastic Research Bulletin 3,p5
8
13th-16th cent: declaration by abbot rel to dispute between Coupar abbey and Cistercian order c1250
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRA 10983

See HMC 6th Rep, App, p642
9
1524-1618: writs 1524-1618 and tithe and estate accounts 1527-28
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
NRA 32338 Douglas

See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [29a]