Ramsey Abbey

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Date:	1000-1700
Places:	Ramsey, Huntingdonshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C37673 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O63914 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	13th-16th cent: charters, rolls, accounts, account books, registers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add Ch 34332-766, 39039-942, 54224-32; Add MSS 33445-51, 34484
2	1188: deeds rel to advowson of Holme next the Sea	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office	D593/A/1/11	NRA 10699 Leveson-Gower
3	?late 13th-16th cent: Barnwell deeds nd, court rolls 2-4 Abbot Robert and temp Hen VIII, terriers and rentals temp Edward I-Henry VIII	Northamptonshire Archives Service	Boxes 1350, 1352; Acc 1977/23 'old box' 18	NRA 23059 Montagu-Douglas-Scot See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 (70n)
4	11th cent, 14th cent: ?forged charter of inspeximus by Edward the Confessor 11th cent	Holkham Hall	Holkham MSS 26, 262	See HMC 9th Rep, App II, p362; Seymour de Ricci, Handlist of Holkhalm Hall MSS (1932)
5	13th cent: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Vesp.E.ii, fos 1-78	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.787); Monastic Research Bulletin 3,p24
6	late 13th cent: copies of royal charters (10th-13th cent)	The National Archives	E 132/1/1	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.789), which gives reference, incorrectly, as E 132/1/7
7	13th cent: quire from a lost cartulary	Collection held privately: enquiries to Northamptonshire Record Office	Buccleuch MS	See Monastic Research Bulletin 3, p24, 5,p15
8	14th cent: register	The National Archives	E 164/28	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.788)
9	early 14th cent: 'Historiae Abbatiae' encompassing narrative account of benefactions (to 1200) and other material	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Rawlinson B.333	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.790)
10	early 14th cent: misc register of pleas, statutes, surveys, fees, etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Egerton 3663	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.793)
11	early 14th cent: fragment of misc register of bounds, liberties, etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley 5071	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.794)
12	14th cent: fragments of registers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Otho B.xiv, fos 259-79	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.795)
13	14th cent: misc register of pleas, liberties, inquisitions, etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Vesp.A.xviii, fos 87-151	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.796)
14	late 14th cent: fragment of register of pleas and related charters	The National Archives	E 135/20/4	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.797)
15	1431-41: register of Abbot J Titchmarsh	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add 33450	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.799)
16	13th-15th cent: misc copies of charters 13th cent, misc 15th cent register	Norfolk Record Office	Hare MSS 2,128-30	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.800); Monastic Research Bulletin 3,p24
17	13th cent: surveys, rentals, etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Galba E.x, fos 8-58	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.791)
18	14th-15th cent: register of fines	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley 445, 649, 2904	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.798); CE Wright Fontes Harleiani
19	c1285-1316: fragment of letter book of J Sawtry, abbot 1285-1316	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Ashmole 1524, fos 3-20	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.792)
20	13th-14th cent: misc volume, incl copies of charters, notes re events in abbey, Benedictine chapters	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Hh.vi.11	See Cambridge University Library Catalogue of Manuscripts (1979 reprint)
21	c1360: chamberlain's account roll	Huntingdonshire Archives		See Annual Return 1998
22	1291-93: assessment of lands and rents in Archdeaconry of Huntingdon (Taxation of Pope Nicholas)	College of Arms	Monastic charters, no.145	NRA 23441 College of Arms
23	16th cent: valor of possessions temp Henry VIII	The National Archives	SC 12/11/36
24	?17th cent: terrier of lands of abbey	Huntingdonshire Archives	DDM65 (Acc 221; opp p111a in list)	NRA 902 Montagu