Cartulary of St. Laurence's Hospital, Canterbury — 14th century, late; English, Canterbury | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Cartulary of St. Laurence's Hospital, Canterbury — 14th century, late; English, Canterbury

Shelfmark

MS. Top. Kent d. 3

Place of origin

English, Canterbury

Date

14th century, late

Language

Latin

Middle English (1100-1500)

Cartulary of St. Laurence's Hospital, Canterbury

(fol. 1r) Rubric: Reformacio facta per ... dominum Thomam Dei gracia abbatem sancti Augustini Cant. xii kalendas Martii anno Domini MºCC nonagesimo quarto

(fol. 3v) Rubric: Addiciones facte per dominum Thomam Colewelle abbatem monasterii supradicti in visitacione sua facta ... vi die Augusti anno Domini MºCCCmoLVIº

(fol. 5r) Oath of chastity and obedience to the abbot of St. Augustine's.

(fol. 5r) Short account of the foundation of the house and grant of land by abbot Hugh for the building.

(fol. 6r) Confirmation by Popes Eugenius III, Celestine IV, Honorius IV, and archbishop Edmund , of benefactions made to the monastery.

(fol. 7v) Grant by Abbot Roger (1253–74).

(fol. 8r) Rubric: Forma observanda cum aliqua mulier velanda fuerit

(fol. 9r) Confirmations by Popes Celestine III, Honorius III, Alexander IV, and Honorius IV, of benefaction to the monastery

(fol. 11r) Rule, in English, of which an inaccurate transcript is pr. C. E. Woodruff, Archaeologia cantiana, 50 (1939), 39–45.

(fol. 14r) Liveries

(fol. 15r) Grant of the church of St. Mary, Stodmarsh, to the hospital of Poor Priests, Canterbury, by the abbot and monks of St. Augustine's, and decisions of William Hunden, commissary general (appointed 1397; see Irene Josephine Churchill, Canterbury administration: the administrative machinery of the Archbishopric of Canterbury illustrated from original records (London, 1933), I, 60), regarding tithe cases concerning the hospital of St. Lawrence.

(fol. 17r) List of benefactions since the foundation.

(fol. 20r) Rental.

(fol. 20v) Deeds, arranged in no apparent order, written in various hands.

(fol. 48r) Miscellaneous notes on tenements.

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 50 leaves

Decoration

Plain red initials, fol. 1–7v.

Binding

16th-century English calf with a stamped panel divided into compartments containing alternately a portcullis, a rose, fleur-de-lis, and the initials 'H.R.' (see J. Basil Oldham, Shrewsbury school library bindings: catalogue raisonné (Oxford, 1943), pp. 12, 13, and pl. 46, roll. 37).

Acquisition

Bought from Quaritch, 1938.

Provenance

W. Shaw Mason, his sale, Sotheby's 27 Nov. 1830, part of lot 1094

Duke of Newcastle, Sotheby's 15 Feb. 1938, lot 1145

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