MS. Top. Kent d. 3
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Contents
twenty-four chapters of rules
twelve additions
Oath of chastity and obedience to the abbot of St. Augustine's.
Short account of the foundation of the house and grant of land by abbot Hugh for the building.
Confirmation by Popes Eugenius III, Celestine IV, Honorius IV, and archbishop Edmund , of benefactions made to the monastery.
Grant by Abbot Roger (1253–74).
Confirmations by Popes Celestine III, Honorius III, Alexander IV, and Honorius IV, of benefaction to the monastery
Rule, in English, of which an inaccurate transcript is pr. C. E. Woodruff, Archaeologia cantiana, 50 (1939), 39–45.
Liveries
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.
List of benefactions since the foundation.
Rental.
Deeds, arranged in no apparent order, written in various hands.
Miscellaneous notes on tenements.
Two other copies of this cartulary are Cambridge, Univ. Lib. MS. Add. 6845 (Davis 211) and Canterbury, Dean and Chapter Muniments C.20 (Davis 212), the latter described by Woodruff, art. cit.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
26 long lines, fol.1 – 7v
30 – 36 long lines, fol.8 – 48v
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).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
W. Shaw Mason, his sale, Sotheby's 27 Nov. 1830, part of lot 1094
Duke of Newcastle, Sotheby's 15 Feb. 1938, lot 1145
Bought from Quaritch, 1938.
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.