Catalogue description Abbey of St Peter, Gloucester: Cartulary and Deeds

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Details of C 150
Reference: C 150
Title: Abbey of St Peter, Gloucester: Cartulary and Deeds
Description:

The cartulary is an illuminated volume of 337 vellum leaves, formerly located in C 115

Although there are fly-leaves from a later period at both the beginning and end of the volume, and an inquisition of 1532-33 inserted part-way through, there is no charter in the cartulary proper of a date later than the abbacy of John de Gamages (1284-1306). It is therefore likely that the cartulary is a transcript of charters which, a fifteenth-century history of St Peter's tells us, abbot Gamages presented to the monastery as a gift.

The deeds date from c1100 to 1338. Some make mention of the priory at Llanthony.

Date: c1100-c1400
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Latin
Physical description: 2 boxes and volumes
Custodial history: The cartulary of the abbey of St Peter, Gloucester, was formerly among the deeds and papers belonging to Frances, dowager duchess of Norfolk (1750-1820), whose estate was administered on her behalf by a committee appointed under a commission of lunacy. The provenance of the deeds is not so clear. They were almost certainly kept in a muniment chest of the abbey of St Peter, since a few of them are entered in the cartulary.
Publication note:

The cartulary in is printed in Historia et cartularum monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae, ed W H Hart (3 vols, Rolls Series, 1863-1867).

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