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St John the Baptist's Abbey, Colchester

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Date: 1250-1700
Places:
  • Colchester, Essex
Functions, occupations and activities: Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C36619 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O65540 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
c1250-1530: cartulary (c1250-1415), ledger book (c1315-1530)
Essex Record Office
Acc C.38
See Update 1985/6. Formerly Wrest Park MSS 56-7 (HMC 2nd Rep App, p7); Davis, Cartularies (267,269); Mo
2
15th cent: pittancer's cartulary and rental
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Arundel MS 145
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no 268)
3
15th cent: decimary
Essex Record Office
D/DR/Q1
NRA 20947 Round
4
c1540: survey of manors of East and West Donyland, Essex, property of suppressed monastery of Colchester
Northamptonshire Archives Service
FH 930
NRA 4485 Finch-Hatton

See HMC 1st Report viii-ix, App 14-34 (Hatton MSS)
5
17th cent: collection rel to abbey, incl translation of ministers account (N.d.)
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
NRA 836 Percy

See HMC 3rd Report App, p119
6
c1550: note rel to attainder of abbot in December 1539
Essex Record Office
D/DP/Q3
NRA 23544 Petre