Shaftesbury Abbey (Benedictine)

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Date:	1170-1532
Places:	Milverton, Somerset Shaftesbury, Dorset
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Nuns
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C59737 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O61939 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	13th-14th cent: documents (72) rel to from late 13th cent, incl items rel to elections of abbess 1290-1 and case of novel disseisin against abbess by Salisbury dean and chapter 1371	Salisbury Cathedral Archives		See HMC 55: Var Coll I, pp347-8
2	c1170-1372: deeds rel to Milverton	Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)	DD\SAS/C795/HV1	NRA 28398 Somerset Arch Soc
3	15th cent: cartulary, incl copies of grants 9th-15th cents	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley 61	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (885)
4	early 15th cent: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Egerton 3135	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (886)
5	c1500: inventory of deeds	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Egerton 3098	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (887)
6	'untraced' leiger-book	Unknown location		See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (888). Brief extracts in BL Add 29976, fo.13
7	1471-1532: court rolls of courts of abbess (1352-3,1428-9,1480-2) and abbey tenants (1453)	Dorset History Centre	DC-SYB	NRA 6644 See CH Mayo,The Municipal Records of Shaftesbury (Sherborne,1889)
8	early 16th cent: accounts and papers	Longleat House		See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [104a]; HMC 3rd Rep, App, p182