St Mary's Abbey, York

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Date:	1100-1600
Places:	York, Yorkshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C7025 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O66671 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1308-1529: charter of inspeximus 1308, 2 cartularies 14th cent, chamberlain's account 1528-9	York Minster Archives	XVI.A.1,2; Add MSS 254, 255	NRA 30444 York Minster See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (nos 1101, 1103); NRA 26560
2	15th-16th cent: roll describing abbey's rights ?15th cent (contents 1089-1427), part (22 fos) of Abbot Thornton's register 1507-14, documents rel to dispute with York Dean and chapter rel to Grenedikes tithes 1457-64	York Minster Archives	MSS M2(6)a, P1/1/5, HYC BB.15	NRA 26560 See Monastic Research Bulletin 2,p11, 5,p21
3	12th cent: collection of misc 12th cent quires, incl charters, Rule of St Benedict, Stephen of Whitby's history, list (c1180) of Benedictine abbeys	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add 38816	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (1097); was Phillipps MS 24354
4	deeds of property in Lincolnshire (Monks Liberty, Lincoln)	Lincolnshire Archives		See Archivists' Report 1953-4 (BRA 275)
5	12th cent-1319: charter roll of possessions of Rumburgh Priory, dependency of St Mary's abbey	Northamptonshire Archives Service	Finch Hatton MS 453	NRA 4485 Finch-Hatton See Monastic Research Bulletin 2,p11; partly published Monasticon, new edn, vol III, p612, nos.i-ii
6	13th-14th cent: fragment of late 13th cent cartulary; leaves from (2) registers containing copies of pleas, writs, etc, 13th-14th cent; copies of (6) deeds rel to Sandtoft (Lincs)	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Dodsworth 76 (SC 5018), fos 56-60, 122-23	See Davis (1098-9, 1105)
7	14th cent: cartulary	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley 236, 56	See CE Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972); Davis Medieval Cartularies (1100)
8	?15th cent: catalogue of library	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley MS 2268, fos 295-304v	See Harlaxton Medieval Studies, vol XI (2002), p366
9	14th cent: cartulary	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library	Lat.MSS.220-221	See Davis (1102); Monatic Research Bulletin 5,p20
10	15th cent: fragment of cartulary (untraced)	Unknown location		See HMC 14th Rep, App ix,p270; Davis (1104)
11	14th -15th cent: ordinal and customary	Cambridge University: St John's College Library	MS D. 27	See James, Catalogue of MSS of St John's College Library, Cambridge
12	c1188-14th cent: Yorks (Hipswell) quitclaim temp Edward II, inspeximus of Durham grants ? 13th cent, Durham deed of grant by Berard Balliol c1186-88	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Stowe Ch 450, 509; Cotton Ch v 75