Byland Abbey

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Date:	1100-1546
Places:	Asby, Westmorland Byland, Yorkshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Other monastic orders
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C54647 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O70050 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	12th cent-1340: charters (4, 12th cent-1340)	Belvoir Castle		See HMC 24, Rutland, vol IV, pp75-7
2	12th cent-1392: Yorkshire deeds (4,12th cent-1392)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add Ch 20546, 20563, 20569, 20588-9	See British Library index of manuscripts; HMC 1st Report viii-ix,14-34 (Hatton charters)
3	12th cent-1546: deeds (6) rel to land in Asby, sale of land and licence (1545/6)	Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal	WDKILV	NRA 32567 See 32567
4	12th-14th cent: deeds	Collection held privately: enquiries to Cumbria Record Office, Kendal	Box A	NRA 6234 Bagot See HMC 13, 10th Report, App IV, pp320-1,323-4
5	late 13th cent: copies of 15 charters, with part of 16th, mainly rel to Denby	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Dodsworth 76 (SC 5018), fo 146	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no. 141)
6	early 15th cent: part of a general cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Egerton 2823	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.142); Monastic research Bulletin 7,pp8-9
7	copies of charters, etc	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Dodsworth 63, fos 9-78	See Monastic Research Bulletin 3
8	copies of charters	North Yorkshire County Record Office	ZDV.1.40 (MIC3 167)	See Monastic Research Bulletin 3
9	copies of charters	Manchester Archives and Local Studies	MS Farrer, Towneley transcripts	See Monastic Research Bulletin 3
10	12th cent: book of psalms formerly belonging to abbey	York Minster Archives	XVI.I.7	NRA 30444 York Minster