RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



chapel of Hoxne to Beodricsworth, afterwards 

 known as Bury St. Edmunds. 1 



The first church in which the body of 

 St. Edmund was placed when it was removed 



monk of St. Edmunds, and generally called by his 

 name. This contains 280 folios. A full calendar of 

 the contents, arranged alphabetically, occupies the 

 first fifty folios. This is followed by a dated list of 

 the successive abbots, with brief remarks as to their 

 acts, from Uvius, the first abbot (1020), down to 

 John of Brinkley, who died in 1379. 



X. Add. MS. 1 4849 supplies extents and custumaries 

 taken in 1357 and 1387 ; and various statutes and 

 letters of Edward III. 



XI. Lansd. MS. 416, called ' Ikworth,' is a register 

 of the rents pertaining to the office of infirmarian, 

 arranged in alphabetical order by Thomas Ikworth, 

 infirmarian, in 1425, on 87 folios. 



XII. Tiberius B. ix, of the Cotton MSS. is much 

 damaged by fire. From folio i to 203 is a register of 

 the abbey during the rule of two successive abbots, 



_William of Cratfield and William of Exeter, who ruled 

 from 1390 to 1429. 



XIII. A. xii, of the Cotton MSS. contains the 

 ' Registrum Hostilariae,' a collection of documents put 

 together by Andrew Aston, hosteller, in 1426. The 

 contents are printed, as already stated, in Arnold's 

 Memorials. 



XIV. Add. MS. 1 4848 is the 'Registrum Curteys' 

 _pr register of the acts of William Curteys, abbot 1429- 



46. 



XV. Add. MS. 1096 is the ' Registrum Curteys II,' 

 a very large volume of 221 folios. The more important 

 letters are in Arnold's Memorials, iii, 24179. 



XVI. Harl. MS. 638, known as 'Registrum Werke- 

 ton,' is a fifteenth-century chartulary of 270 folios. 

 Among the more important contents, in addition to the 

 chartulary proper, may be mentioned (i) the process 

 against the Friars Minors and their expulsion from the 

 town of St. Edmunds in 1293 (printed by Arnold, 

 op. cit. ii, 263-85) ; (2) a taxation roll of the pos- 

 sessions of the abbey in the archdeaconries of Sudbury 

 and Suffolk in 1200 ; (3) charters, temp. Richard II, 

 relative to the hospital of Domus Dei ; (4) a con- 

 vention, of 49 Edward III, between the abbots of 

 St. Edmunds and Malmesbury as to the use of 

 quadam camera honesta in Kewell Street, Oxford, for 

 the use of students from St. Edmunds. 



XVII. Harl. MS. 58 is in the main a register of 

 the rents due to the sacrist, drawn up in the year 

 1433, when John Cranewys was sacrist. It also 

 includes the various dues (relevia) in the town of 

 St. Edmunds paid yearly to the sacrist under the term 

 Hadgovell, which began in the year 1354. 



XVIII. Harl. MS. 27 is a register known as 

 ' Registrum Croftis,' consisting of 178 folios, in fifteenth- 

 century hands. It relates to the property of the 

 pittancer. 



XIX. Harl. MS. 312 is a collection of transcripts, 

 but there is nothing that is not found elsewhere. 



XX. Add. MS. 31970 is a portion of a register of 

 charters, rentals, and other evidences. 



XXI. Harl. MS. 308 contains a collection of leases 

 granted by the abbey from gth to 3istof Henry VIII. 



MSS. IN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 

 There are six registers of Bury St. Edmunds in 



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from the decent tomb (competent mausoleo) at 

 Hoxne was a large church made of wood with 

 much skill by the people of the district of all 

 ranks. 2 Edmund son of Edward the Elder 

 granted in 945 the lands round Beodricsworth to 

 the family 3 of the monastery. At that time the 



this library. They formerly belonged to the Bacons, 

 to whom the abbey was granted : 



I. .2, 29 is the ' Registrum Rubeum I,' 87 folios ; 

 it deals with the privileges, disputes, and agreements 

 of the reign of Henry IV. 



II. Ff.4, 35 is the ' Registrum Rubeum II' ; a con- 

 tinuation of the preceding one, with some additions 

 of the next reign. 



III. Ff.z, 33 is the ' Registrum Sacristae,' compiled 

 by R. de Denham, who was sacrist temp. Edward II. In 

 this volume are transcripts of 48 Saxon charters. 



IV. Ee.3, 36 is the 'Album Registrum Vestiarii,' 

 326 folios ; the work of Walter de Pyncebek, monk of 

 St. Edmunds, begun in the year 1333 ; it is chiefly 

 occupied with a register of all the pleadings, &c. 

 between the town of Bury St. Edmunds and the 

 abbey. 



V. Gg.4, 4 is the first part of the ' Registrum 

 Alphabeticum Cellararii.' 



VI. Mm. 4, 19 is the 'Registrum Nigrum,' of 

 different hands, and of 241 folios. It is a chartulary 

 of royal grants and papal confirmations, as well as 

 of general benefactions and privileges. 



Some of the salient points from these Cambridge 

 registers are given in Arnold's Memorials, iii, 177-2 1 6. 



MSS. IN VARIOUS PLACES 



A. Public Record Office. Duchy of Lane. Records, 

 xi, 5. This is a ' Registrum Cellararii ' of I 52 folios, 

 containing pleas of Edward I and II, bounds and 

 rentals of Mildenhall, &c., and transcripts of all 

 charters relative to the cellarer's office up to 1256. 



B. Barton Hall, Suffolk (Sir E. Bunbury). 'Regis- 

 trum Cellararii II.' This is the second part of the 

 alphabetical chartulary, the first part of which is in 

 the Univ. Lib. Camb. 



C. Public Library at Douai. Cod. 5 5 3 is the Liber 

 Cenobii S. Edmundi, c. 1424. The 72 folios of this 

 register are occupied with a list of benefactors, and 

 the rules of the Officium Coquinariae, the last compiled 

 by Andrew Aston, who also compiled Claud. A. xii, 

 of the British Museum. See Dr. James's treatise on 

 the Library and Church of St. Edmunds (Camb. Antiq. 

 Soc. 1895), pp. 180-2. 



D. Bodleian Library, MS. 240. This is a great 

 codex of 898 pages, in late fourteenth-century hands. 

 A note at the beginning styles it ' Liber Monachorum 

 Sancti Edmundi,' and gives 1377 as the date of its 

 beginning. Dr. Horsman has given a summary of the 

 contents of this book in the preface to his Nov. Leg. 

 Angl. 1(1901). The chief contents relating to Bury are 

 a very full life of St. Edmund, and an account of the 

 monastic discipline for the novices of the house. 

 Excerpts are given in Arnold's Memorials, i, 358-77 ; 

 ii, 362-8. 



1 The date 903 is assigned to this translation in the 

 Curteys Register (pt. I, fol. 211), and it is the most 

 likely of the early authorities to be correct. 



' Abbo, < Life ' (Jesus Coll. Oxf. MSS.) ; Arnold, 

 Mem. (Rolls Ser.), i, 19. 



5 ' Familie monasterii,' Chart. Edmund II ; Arnold 

 (op. cit.), i, 340. 



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