Tavistock Abbey

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Date:	1100-1600
Places:	Tavistock, Devon
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C28931 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O66576 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	12th-16th cent: deeds (12th-16th cent), cartulary (13th cent), manorial, estate and administrative papers (13th-16th cent)	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	W1258/D2-84, G1, G4-6, E31-37, Add 1,4,8,9; L1258/15/22; T1258/65	NRA 9813 Russell See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 (90d); GRC Davis, Medieval Cartularies (947, 9
2	1419: commission from Martin V to abbot to inquire into grievances of Exeter Cathedral vicars choral	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	Episcopal Muniments 1059 (MS catalogue)	NRA 5543 Exeter diocese See HMC 55: Various collections IV, 20, 71; NRA 8474: Dean & Chapter Archives 5311
3	1463: Writ of Privy Seal instructing Eton College to deliver evidences of Cowick Priory to abbot	Eton College	ECR 49/150	NRA 31984 Eton College
4	15th cent: parts of a miscellaneous register rel to temporalities	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Egerton 3671, fos 1-47	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (949)
5	15th cent: 'lost' cartulary	Unknown location		See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (948); Monastic Research Bulletin 5,p18