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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