St Albans Abbey

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Date:	1150-1700
Places:	St Albans, Hertfordshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C67004 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O61806 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	c1152-1522: deeds (c1152-1522) and legal papers (13th cent-1389)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add Ch 19590,19623,19627,19630,19729,19911,21367,21377-8,21380	See British Library index of manuscripts; HMC 1st Report, viii-ix, App 14-34 (Hatton Charters)
2	13th cent: copies of Anglo-Saxon and royal charters (Offa-Henry I)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Nero D.1,fos 149-61	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (831)
3	late 14th cent: cartulary	Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth		See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (832); HMC Guide to Family and Estate collections (17a)
4	late 14th cent: parts of vol ii of the same cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Otho D.iii; Add MS 40734,fos 18-30	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (833-4)
5	16th cent: register of lands acquired 1420-1521 with copies of deeds, rentals, extents, etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Arundel 34	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (835)
6	14th-15th cent: almoner's cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Lansdowne 375	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (836)
7	14th-15th cent: sacrist's cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Julius D.iii,fos 1-124	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (837)
8	register of abbey during abbacy of William Heyworth	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 5843, p153	See British Library index of manuscripts
9	15th cent: letter-book of Abbot John Wheathampstead	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Claud.D.i,fos 3-34	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (840)
10	14th-15th cent: register of rentals, custumals, records of legal proceedings, etc rel to abbey's lands	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Tiberius E. vi	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (838); Monastic Research Bulletin 3,p25
11	15th cent: history of the second abbacy of John Wheathampstead 1451-65	College of Arms	Arundel 3	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (841)
12	15th-16th cent: register of the abbots 1458-88	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Rawlinson B 332; Rawlinson B 331	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (842, 843)
13	1492: fragment of register of Abbot Ramridge	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	ASA 4	NRA 9826 St Albans archdeacon See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (842A)
14	memorandum book of Prior John Moot, incl rentals, leases, acquitances, etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley MSS 602, 865, 2624, 3737, 3775	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (839); CE Wright Fontes Harleiani
15	c1380: 'Catalogues Benefactorum', with notes of benefactions	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Nero D vii	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (844)
16	15th cent: Book of Benefactors	Cambridge University: Parker Library, Corpus Christi College	MS 7, pp 203-22	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (845)
17	two lost leiger books	Unknown location		See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (848)
18	17th cent: extracts from lost leiger books	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Ee.3.44	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (848)
19	14th cent: copies of court rolls of Aston Abbots 1288-1344	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Egerton 3317	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (846)
20	13th-15th cent: Formulary 14th-15th cent	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Ee.4.20	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (847); CUL Catalogue of MSS (1979 reprint)
21	1537-38: book of receipts (trans from Latin temp James I)	Society of Antiquaries of London	MS 316	NRA 27819
22	14th cent-early 16th cent: records of Herts (Cashio, Watford, etc) manors	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies		NRA 7244 Capell See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [16a]
23	1237-1536: Herts manorial records	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 40625-26, etc	See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [16g]
24	15th cent: royal pardon for receiving papal bulls 1445	Eton College	ECR 39/44, 47-8; Library MS 26, MS 103	NRA 31984 Eton College See NR Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, II, 1977; MR James, Descriptive Catalogue
25	c 1150: psalter and notes	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add 81084, 81085	See Annual Return 2005