Abingdon Abbey

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Date:	1000-1600
History:	Benedictine Abbey, dedicated to BVM. Founded 675, dissolved 1538.
Places:	Abingdon, Berkshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C9628 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O60374 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	11th cent: martyrology with obit list	Cambridge University: Parker Library, Corpus Christi College	MS 57, fos 41-94	See James, Catalogue of the MSS in Corpus Christi Library (Cambridge, 1912), I, pp115-18
2	11th cent: chronicle	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton MS Tiberius B i, fos 115v-164	See The Abingdon Chronicle, ed PW Conner, vol X of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Cambridge, 1996)
3	12th cent: chronicle	Lambeth Palace Library	MS 42	See Wharton, Anglia Sacra I, pp xxiv, 163-9
4	mid 12th cent: history of abbey containing copies of many charters, notes rel to customs, surveys, etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Claud.C.ix, fos 105-203	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no 3); Monastic Research Bull 3,p9, 8,p27
5	late 13th cent: revision and amplification of above item	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Claud.B.vi	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no 4)
6	13th cent: lives of abbots	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton MS Vitellius A xiii, fos 83-87
7	13th cent: chronicle, incl abbots' lives	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Arundel 326, fos 10-22
8	14th cent: annals	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library	MS R/17/17 (no.993)	See Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, ed H Rothwell, Camden 3rd Ser, vol 79 (1957), pp xxxv-xxxvii
9	14th cent: material rel to abbey interpolated into a copy of Hemingburgh's Chronicle	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS Dd 2/5, fos 1-256	See Chronicle of the Monatery of Abingdon 1218-1304, ed JO Halliwell (Berkshire Ashmolean Soc., 1844)
10	c1300: cartulary	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Lyell 15	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no 5); pd OHS, ns,32,1990; MRB 2,p2
11	14th cent: register of deeds and other documents	Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth	MS 71 E	See Davis Medieval Cartularies (no 6); pd Oxf His Soc, n.s.,32,1990; MRB 2,p2; HMC Guide to family & est
12	late 15th cent: fragment of register	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Julius C.ii, fos 295-308	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no 7)
13	1421-83: Oxfordshire deeds and leases	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS DD Queen's College; Calendar 1938-40, 2014-5, 2024-9, 2086-8	NRA 1097 Queen's College
14	1476-1502: papal absolution, promulgated by abbot, in favour of Westminster monks supporting crusade (1476)	Westminster Abbey Library and Muniment Room	parcel 18/16, parcel 33/26	See HMC 4th Report, App, pp175,183
15	1476: indulgence issued by abbot	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	DD 39098	See HMC 4th Report, App, p378
16	14th cent-16th cent: chamberlains accounts 1361/2 & (draft) 1505/6	Royal Berkshire Archives	D/EAh/E17/42, M1-8, M26-28, Z1	NRA 522 Archer-Houblon See also NRA 1081 note at D/EP/7/140
17	1390-91: accounts of Almoner and Clerk of the Works 1390/1	Royal Berkshire Archives	D/EP7/140, D/EP1/M10, M15-16	NRA 1081 Preston See 19th-20th cent notes and transcripts in D/EP7 passim
18	14th-15th cent: court rolls for Chieveley and Welford (1377)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add Ch 75435-37
19	1422-61: Winkfield manorial court roll (unfit for production 1996)	Royal Berkshire Archives	D/EN M18	NRA 431 See extracts in Bodleian MS Gough Berks 5 (SC 17719)
20	extracts from Winkfield manorial court rolls, temp Richard II and 1422-61	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Gough Berkshire 5, Summary Catalogue 17719
21	1531-32: rental for estates in Berks, Glos, Oxon	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 48202
22	1537-39: surrender deed and surveys of property of former abbey	The National Archives	E 322/2 SC6/Hen VIII/109, SC12/15, 17
23	13th cent: misc letters, etc rel to Abingdon and other houses	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton MS Julius A ix, fos 158-170v	See Documents Illustrating the... Chapters ofPantin,'English Monastic Letter-Books' in Essays in Honour
24	1555-56: survey of lands formerly belonging to the abbey in Abingdon	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Gg.iv.21	See Cambridge University Library Catalogue of Manuscripts (1979 reprint)
25	misc vol containing ?transcripts of items rel to abbey, incl list of abbots and customs of abbey	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley MS 209	See CE Wright, Fontes Harleiani