Melrose Abbey

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Date:	1100-1900
Places:	Melrose, Roxburghshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Other monastic orders
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C75527 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O66462 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1124-19th cent: charters 1124-1625, related papers 13th-19th cent	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD55	NRA 30352 Melrose See Liber Ste Marie de Melrose, Bannatyne Club, 1837; HMC Estate Guide(70b); List of Gifts and Deposits
2	c1174-1556: grant of wax 1174x99, inspeximus of perambulation of bounds 1427, writ 1556	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add Ch 76747, 76756, 76763
3	1446-1657: writs and tacks, mostly rel to teinds 1446-1657	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS1 box LIV, muniments consulted by Fraser box 14; NRAS1275 bundles 432, 1677, 1679	NRA 6184 Montagu-Douglas-Scot See NRAS1, 1275
4	16th-18th cent: writs, tacks and legal papers 1500-1707	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD224/174/4, 308/23, 890/10, 906/3-4,20, 930/38,41,43, 997/1-3, 1126/59,103,133	NRA 34806 Buccleuch
5	12th cent: Melrose Chronicle	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Faustina.B.IX, fos 2-75; Cotton Julius B.XIII, fos 2-47	See Monastic Research Bulletin 8, pp25-6
6	late 13th cent: parts of cartulary	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Adv.34.4.11 (A.5.47)	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (1167); Monastic Research Bulletin 3, p5
7	15th cent: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley MS 3960, 7394	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (1168); Monastic Research Bulletin 3,p5
8	13th-16th cent: declaration by abbot rel to dispute between Coupar abbey and Cistercian order c1250	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS217 Box 2/16, 102; Box 32/V/49; box 43/67	NRA 10983 See HMC 6th Rep, App, p642
9	1524-1618: writs 1524-1618 and tithe and estate accounts 1527-28	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD 150	NRA 32338 Douglas See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [29a]