Gloucester Abbey

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Date:	1100-1600
Places:	Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C65310 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O61827 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	12th-16th cent: records	Gloucester Cathedral Library		See Kirby Records of Dean & Chapter (1967); Davis Cartularies (455-6, 459-61); Mon Res Bull 2,p5; HMC 27
2	12th-16th cent: ten volumes of deeds	Gloucester Cathedral Library	Gloucester Abbey charters I-X	NRA 6789 Gloucester Abbey See IM Kirby Catalogue of the Records of the Dean and Chapter (1967), 2-21
3	12th-16th cent: deeds 13th-14th cent, manorial records 1291-1413, legal documents 12th-13th cent, ministers accounts 1541	Gloucestershire Archives	D936/E/170, L/1-2, M/1-5, T/1-5	NRA 7929 Gloucester chapter See IM Kirby Catalogue of the Records of the Dean and Chapter (1967), 199-200
4	c1290-1457: deeds (incl rel to Leonard Stanley Priory) c1290-1457, settlement of suit rel to common pasture at Coaley (1313)	Berkeley Castle Muniments	A1/1/1/7/3, A1/24/1/2/4,A1/11/1/9/2, A1/18/2/3/6, A1/24/1/2/4, E1/1/8/26, F5/3; General charter 1933	NRA 21647 Berkeley See Jeayes Catalogue
5	12th-14th cent: 5 charters	West Sussex Record Office	Cap I/17/84-88	NRA 27929
6	1338: instrument in dispute with rector of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich rel to pension	Norfolk Record Office	DCN/85/17	NRA 40062 Norwich Dean & Chapt
7	15th cent: history of abbey with list of donations	Gloucester Cathedral Library	MS 34	See NR Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, II, 1977, 368-9
8	15th cent: treatise on foundation of abbey followed by list of benefactors and their gifts	Oxford University: Queen's College Library	MS 367	See Coxe & Humphreys, Catalogue of MSS in Oxford Colleges, 1972; Davis Medieval Cartularies (457)
9	15th cent: list of benefactors and their gifts	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Domitian A. viii, fos 145v-161v	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (458)
10	16th cent: cartulary	The National Archives	C 150/1 (formerly C 115/K1/6680)	NRA 42064 Scudamore See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.454)
11	1499-1518: court book of Herefordshire manors	Gloucestershire Archives	GDR 1/A	NRA 11942 Gloucester diocese See IM Kirby, Diocese of Gloucester: Catalogue of the records of the bishop and archdeacons (1968)
12	1453-54: Frocester court roll	Hereford Cathedral Library and Archives	R1165	NRA 6186 See Manorial Documents Register
13	manuscripts formerly owned by, incl volume with list of books given to abbey by Richard de Stowe	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley MSS 613, 627, 659	See CE Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)