Fountains Abbey

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Date:	1100-1605
Places:	Fountains, Yorkshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Other monastic orders
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C67089 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O61805 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	12th cent-16th cent: records incl stock book 1480-93, steward's book 1527-36, survey 1540	Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	MD 335/66-7, 113	NRA 546 Bradfer-Lawrence See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [56b]
2	c1210-1605: deeds (3:c1210-1509), letters patent reciting patents from 13th-16th cent and granting abbey to Sir Stephen Proctor (1605), award re Dishforth rent (1490), leases (3: 1494-1521), inventory of abbey's lands and possessions (1532)	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds	NH/1,268,312,321,323-5,559,2314	NRA 5836 Vyner
3	12th-13th cent: charters	Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth	Hardwick Charters 434-56	NRA 20594 Cavendish See HMC 3rd Report, pp 37,41,44-5; HMC Guide to Family and Estate Collections (17a)
4	12th cent: deeds	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 76714, 76716, 76718	See HMC 29: Duke of Portland II, pp3-4
5	c1340-1480: coucher book (c1360), precedent book (c1450), cartularies (1340,c1360,c1480)	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds	nos 5380-85	NRA 6160 See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (416,421,426); Monastic Research Bulletin 3,p16, 5,p11
6	late 13th cent: part of cartulary	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Rawlinson B 449	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (411)
7	late 13th cent: continuation of above cartulary	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Univ Coll MS 170	See Davis (412)
8	13th cent: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Egerton 3053	See Davis (413)
9	15th cent: 3 volumes (A-C,D-I,K-M) of 5-volume cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Tib.C.xii; Add 40009; Add 37770	See Davis 414, 415, 417
10	volume for N-P of above cartulary, untraced	Unknown location		See Davis 418
11	15th cent: 5th volume (Q-Z) of above cartulary	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library	Lat. MS 224	See Davis (419)
12	late 15th cent: cartulary of royal and papal privileges	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Univ. Coll MS 167	See Davis (420)
13	1509: inventory or abstract of deeds	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add 18276	See Davis (422); Monastic Research Bulletin 3, p16
14	late 13th cent: cartulary of the pittancer	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Rawlinson B 449, fos 13-18,111-22; Univ.Coll.MS.170	See Davis (423)
15	papal privileges, etc	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Laud misc 527, fos 32-7 (SC 814)	See Monastic Research Bulletin 3, p16
16	late 15th-early 16th cent: register of leases made by Abbot W Thirsk (temp Hen VII-HenVIII)	Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	MS 284	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.427); Monastic Research Bulletin2,p5; pd Yorks Arch Soc, Rec ser
17	15th cent: rentals (15th cent)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add 40010, 40011(A)	See Davis (424-5)
18	14th cent: extracts from charters (?part of a cartulary)	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds	WYL230	NRA 11614 Ingilby See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [56a]; Monastic Research Bulletin 5,p11