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Merton Priory

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Date: 1200-2015
Places:
  • Merton, Surrey
  • Upton, Buckinghamshire
Functions, occupations and activities: Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Augustinian Canons
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C17416 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O75880 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
13th-14th cent: register of leases and other acta of the priory c1150-c1352
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Cotton Cleopatra C.vii, fos 60-204
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (662)
2
17th cent: copy of composition rel to tithes with vicar of Kingston (1373)
Surrey History Centre
K58/5/1/1
NRA 17204
3
15th-16th cent: misc records rel to Upton, Bucks, granted to Eton 1443
Eton College
ECR 33/200; 34/163; 36/102; 39/49; 49/282-282A
NRA 31984 Eton College

See HMC 9th Report, App I, p350a
4
late 14th cent: register of court rolls, memoranda, etc
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
Laud misc.723, fos 24-73
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (663)
5
14th cent: rental 1391-2, preceded by an account of the priory's foundation
College of Arms
Arundel 28
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (664)
6
18th cent: transcript from 'an old register or chartulary of Merton' of 14th-16th cent records
Surrey History Centre
Guildford MS 43/545(3)
See Monastic Research Bulletin 3, p21
7
13th-14th cent: MS of Flores Historiarum 13th-14th cent, formerly owned by, with marginalia incl notes on the succession of priors 14th cent
Eton College
MS 123
See NR Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, II, 1977; MR James, Descriptive Catalogue
8
2009-2015: parish records incl parochial church council minutes, annual reports and accounts and annual parochial church meeting agendas and minutes
Surrey History Centre
9600