Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury

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Date:	700-1600
Places:	Canterbury, Kent
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C67387 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O61922 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	08th-16th cent: archives and manuscripts	Canterbury Cathedral Archives		See HMC 5th R,App, 8th R,App, 8:9th R, 55:Var Coll I; Ker MSS II; Davis Cartularies; Mon Res Bull 3,p12
2	13th-16th cent: manorial and estate records	Canterbury Cathedral Archives	U15	NRA 34277 Canterbury CC
3	late 13th-16th cent: deeds, manorial and estate papers	Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library	U63	NRA 39557 See U15 (NRA 34277)
4	13th-16th cent: courts rolls and accounts	Canterbury Cathedral Archives	DCc/CR, ARREARS, BEDELS ROLLS	NRA 43392 Canterbury D & C
5	13th-16th cent: deed 1478, leases 14th-16th cent, appointments of manorial officials 1273-1493, terriers 15th-16th cent, accounts 14th-16th cent, documents rel to tithes c1450, 1516, inventory 1507, list of monks c1490	Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library	DCc/BB	NRA 36355 Canterbury Cath
6	c1199-1500: ecclesiastical suit rolls, mainly 13th cent, of Canterbury courts sede vacante	Canterbury Cathedral Archives	DCc ES Rolls	NRA 36359 Canterbury suits See Select Cases from the Ecclesiastical Courts of the Province of Canterbury c1200-1301, Seldon Society
7	c12th-16th cent: cathedral MSS, incl ?fragments from registers, lists of monks and manors c1500, inventories of priory goods c1500 and c1540	Canterbury Cathedral Archives	Add MSS, esp 6, 17, 33, 68, 127, 128, 129	NRA 36274 Canterbury misc See NR Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, II, 1977
8	14th-16th cent: leases and estate papers	Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library	U63	NRA 36274 Canterbury misc
9	c1300-1542: register (early 14th cent), abstract of cartulary, extracts from registers, accounts, charter of Henry VIII (1542), manuscripts formerly belonging to, etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 5490,5506,6037,6156-62,6166,6261	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (nos.167,184); Index to Additional MSS 1783-1835
10	c1218-1342: charters (26) rel to estates in Kent and Suffolk	Keele University Library Special Collections and Archives	M72/46/3	NRA 10600 Hatton Wood
11	13th-14th cent: register of statutes, etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Cleopatra C.vii, fos 2-59	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (183)
12	14th cent: Register of statutes, etc	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library	MS O.9.26	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (185)
13	12th cent: quire from cartulary containing copies of charters, etc, 616-early 12th cent	Cambridge University: Parker Library, Corpus Christi College	MS 189	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (163)
14	13th-14th cent: fragment from ?register relating quarrels between Prior Thomas Ringmer and convent (c1280-1)	Cambridge University: St John's College Library	MSS 244-5(N6-7), also MSS 5/1(A5), 8/1(A8), 30(B8), 51-2 (C1-2), 130(E27), ?229(K23)	See James, Catalogue of Library of St John's College, Cambridge; GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.173)
15	13th-14th cent: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 25109	See Monastic Research Bulletin 3, p12
16	1284-98: fragment of a cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 25108	See British Library index of manuscripts; Davis (no.168)
17	late 15th cent: inventory of charters	The National Archives	E 36/138	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (175)
18	15th cent: almonry cartulary	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Tanner MS 18	See Monastic Research Bulletin 2,p4
19	early 14th cent: fragments of almoner's cartulary	Lambeth Palace Library	Carte Misc.xiii, pt i, art.15	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (176)
20	14th-15th cent: fragment of a sacrist's cartulary	Lambeth Palace Library	MS 1232	See Monastic Research Bulletin 3, p12
21	1285-1331: register	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Ee.5.31	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (181)
22	09th-11th cent: 9th cent Gospel book with copies of Anglo-Saxon charters added 10th-11th cent	Lambeth Palace Library	MS 771	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (177); BL Cotton Tib. B. iv, fo 87
23	09th-11th cent: fragment of same Gospel book	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Tib. B.iv, fo 87	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (177); Lambeth Palace Library MS 771
24	10th-12th cent: 10th cent Gospel book with copies of 11th-12th cent papal documents	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Tiberius A.ii, Faustina B.vi, pt i., fos95, 98-100, Claudius A.ii., fos 2-7	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (178)
25	11th cent: 11th cent Gospel book with copy of charter of Cnut c.1017	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Royal I D.ix	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (179)
26	10th-13th cent: 11th cent Gospel book with 13th cent copies of 10th-11th cent charters	Oxford University: St John's College Library	MS 194	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (180)
27	early 14th cent: collection on priory's rights, possessions, etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Galba E.iv, fos 1-186	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (182)
28	14th-15th cent: composite register containing admissions to fraternity, obits, etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Arundel 68	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (187)
29	15th cent: register of Prior William de Molash from 1427	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Tanner 165	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (188)
30	13th-16th cent: obedientiary accounts 1311-1536	Lambeth Palace Library		See Sayers Estate Documents at Lambeth Palace Library; Mon Res Bull 3,p12
31	1257-1391: monastic accounts	Lambeth Palace Library	MSS 242, 243
32	c1436: accounts (fragments)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Sloane MS 4074
33	1450-51: accounts of treasurer of Canterbury and supervisor of St James' hospital	Kent History and Library Centre	EK/U270/Q5	NRA 4712 Pleydell-Bouverie
34	1331-32: almonry rental	Kent History and Library Centre	U88/Q1	NRA 5481
35	14th-15th cent: register of extents, rentals, etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley MS 1006	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (186)
36	16th cent: Collectanea, incl note re acquisition of manors and churches	Cambridge University: Parker Library, Corpus Christi College	MS 298	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (189)
37	1540: inventory of Priory goods	Canterbury Cathedral Archives	Add Ms 33	NRA 36274 Canterbury misc
38	13th-16th cent: historical works of Gervase of Canterbury	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Vespasian.B.XIX	See Monastic Research Bulletin 8,pp29-30
39	collection (?of transcripts) rel to priory's history	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley MSS 788, 315, 624, 636, 1587	See CE Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)