MS. Top. gen. d. 20 (R)

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)

Rubric: Compotum maneriorum de Insula et de partibus Devon' ab anno Lo primo usque Lmo secundo

The manors are 'Foresta', Chillerton (Selerton) [cf. P.R.O. Ministers' Accounts 984/1], Shorwell, Bowcombe, Wootton [Wodinton], Appleford [in Godshill] (Appeltreford), Newport, Yarmouth (Ermue), Lymington Burg', Lymington, Pan (Penna), Newtown [Isle of Wight], Honiton, Burg' de Honiton, Hardisworthy (Hardewik), 'Botesford' (Butsford Barton?) [Devon], Sevenhampton and Worth [Highworth], Stratton [St Margaret] [Wilts], Kennington [Berks], 'Constabularius', Whitchurch [Oxon], Craft [in Crewkerne] and Crewkerne (Cruk') [Somerset]. At the end is attached a grant of Isabella to the Abbey of Montebourgh in Normandy.

Language(s): Latin

Form: roll

Support: parchment

Extent: Seven rolls, attached at one end, each made of several membranes

Dimensions (leaf): 4135 × 250 mm.

Origin: 1267–1268 ; English

Apparently a stray from the series of accounts in the Public Record Office.

Inscribed in ink ‘7’, 18th century (?).

Inscribed in pencil with sale lot no (?): ‘375’, 19th century.

Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), MS. 14009, with this number on one of his characteristic printed labels, his sale, 11 Nov. 1946, lot 118.

Typescript description by Bodleian Library staff

2017-07-01: First online publication.