Waltham Holy Cross Abbey

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Date:	1170-1600
Places:	Waltham Holy Cross, Essex
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Augustinian Canons
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C23254 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O64243 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	late 12th cent-16th cent: Millow and Dunton (Beds) deeds (c1193-1355), cases (mid 14th cent), manorial records (1288-16th cent), leases (1530-40), items rel to Dissolution (1538-40)	Northamptonshire Archives Service	II/1/68-518 (non consec), 611-7, 1834-42 (nc), 1884; R20-32	NRA 10410 Spencer
2	15th-16th cent: deeds	Essex Record Office	D/DP/M1154, T1, T147	NRA 23544 Petre
3	late 12th cent-14th cent: charters (27) rel to estates in Arlesey and Millow, Beds	Keele University Library Special Collections and Archives	M72/46/16	NRA 10600 Hatton Wood
4	c1400-1544: deeds (15th cent), fragement of bailiff's account for unnamed manor (c1400), list of donors towards buring abbey's bells (1544)	Essex Record Office	D/DJg/T12,T54,L25	NRA 6387 Jessopp
5	1531-42: royal grant of abbey lands to George Harper	Huntingdonshire Archives	DDM48B (p71 of list)	NRA 902 Montagu
6	c1220: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley 391	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (989); pd ed R Ransford (Woodbridge, 1989); Monastic Research Bulleti
7	13th cent: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Tib.C.IX, fos 48-260	See Davis (990); pd as above; Mon Res Bull 2,p10
8	14th cent: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley 4809	See Davis (991); pd as above
9	16th cent: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley 3739	See Davis (992); pd as above
10	16th cent: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add 37665	See Davis (993); pd as above
11	lost cartulary	Unknown location		See Davis (994)
12	extracts from above cartulary	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Dodsworth 159 (SC 5100), fos 212-7	See Davis (994)
13	16th cent: register rel to Essex manors 15th-16th cent	The National Archives	C 116/174	NRA 39973 See Monastic Research Bulletin 5,p19
14	14th cent: 'Codex Ruber': a collection of misc religious and historical tracts (2 parts)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley 3766, 3776, 59	See Davis (995-6); CE Wright Fontes Harleiani
15	1279: judgement in tithe suit with Salisbury cathedral	Salisbury Cathedral Archives		See HMC 55: Var Coll I, pp348-9