Shrewsbury Abbey

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Date:	1100-1700
Places:	Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C37450 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O63915 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	foundation charter	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Lansdowne ccccxlvii	See British Library index of manuscripts
2	grants and charters	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley MSS 3868, 6748	See British Library index of manuscripts
3	12th-17th cent: 3 deeds late 12th cent-1526, 17th cent excerpts from cartulary	Shropshire Archives	972/221/6, 221/loose 1, 223/5/5, 223/6/10	NRA 33433 Leveson-Gower See for original of cartulary see Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.895)
4	13th cent-16th cent: 13th cent cartulary of deeds (1129-82), grant of Salop manors to Sir Rowland Hill (1542), legal cases (13th-15th cent), manorial and estate records (15th-16th cent), letters of presntation (1275-1350)	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office	D593/A/1/34-6; B/2/4,12; B/3/6/1; J/11; J/22/184; O/2	NRA 10699 Leveson-Gower See Monastic Research Bulletin 3,p26 (incorrect); corrected in 5,p17
5	late 13th-late 14th cent: cartulary	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	MS 7851	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (895); ed Rees, NLW, 1975; Monastic Research Bulletin 2,p8, 3,p26, 5,
6	1355-61: extent of abbey temporalities on deaths of Abbot Adam (1355) and Abbot Henry de Alston (1361)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 6165, pp81,89	See British Library index of manuscripts
7	volume of extracts from abbey ledger book rel to Atcham	Shropshire Archives	SRR 681/6 Eyton Hall Estate (Accessions June-Sept 1955)	NRA 11563 Shropshire See Monastic Research Bulletin 5,p17
8	copies of deeds	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Dd.ix.62	See Cambridge University Library Catalogue of Manuscripts (1979 reprint)