ROGER DODSWORTH MANUSCRIPTS: EXTRACTS AND COPIES

Description

Comprising a volume by Dodsworth containing

(a) Extracts from a transcript of charters of Lord Robert de Pedwardyn, predecessor of Richard Towneley of Nocton Park, Lincoln and lord of Towneley, Lancashire

(b) Pedigree of heirs of William de Briwer

(c) Copy of a charter of King Edgar regarding the restoration of the Monastery of Peterborough.

(d) Extracts from the Chartulary of Daventry, including some relating to Skirwith, Cumberland and a descent of the Lords of Daventry

(e) History of the Abbey of Melsa (Meaux), transcribed from the original in the hands of Sir Christopher Hildyard of Winestead, Holderness

(f) Copy of a charter to the Abbey of St. Martin, Albemarle, by Stephen, Count of Albermale

(g) Copies of charters of confirmation by Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and of ordination of churches by Walter, Archbishop of York to the same Abbey

(h) Copy of the charter by the Abbot of St, Martins, Albemarle, to the Abbey of Kirkstall of its possessions in Holderness 1394-1395 [The Abbot of St. Martins, Albemarle is the Abbot of Aumale Abbey, France]

(i) The aid granted to Edward I in his expedition against the Scots, c.1292.

(j) The Fees of William de Longespeye, taken before Matthew Brown 1324-1325 from a book of fees of the Duchy of Lancaster at Grays Inn

(k) Partition of the Knight's fees and Advowsons which were Henry's, late Duke of Lancaster.

(l) Fees of Roger de Quency, of the Honour of Leicester

(m) The account of John Rouceby, bailiff, collector of aid for marrying Blanche, daughter of the King, within the Lordship of Pykeringe, 1401-1402. (n) Similar accounts of Henry Nottingham, bailiff of the Duchy of Lancaster, in Norfolk and Suffolk and of Hugh Norburgh, in Lincoln

(o) The names of persons who covenanted to serve William, Lord Hastings 1474-1475, with copies of indentures of service

(p) Indenture between Thomas Earl of Lancaster and Adam de Swillington, for service 1316-1317

(q) An indenture between Sir John Neville and the Bishop of Worcester and others, feoffees of the lands, which were Sir William Latymer's

(r) Extracts from Ingulph's "History"

(s) An indenture between Sir William Stanley and wife and Richard Houghton and wife 1516-1517

(t) Descent of Fleming and Harrington

(u) An agreement between the Prior and Convent of Nostell and Alexander de Bramham

(v) Extracts from the Register of the Abbey of Osney

(w) Copy of a charter of Edward the Confessor to the monastery of Coventry

(x) Extract from the History of Meaux regarding Pope Clement VI's institution of Jubilee

Biography or history

This manuscript was previously divided into MS 283/a/b/c

Provenance

Phillips 12090

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See Dodsworth manuscripts MS282. Meaux, see the preface to the printed "Chronica Monasterii de Melsa".

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