Battle Abbey

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Date:	1000-1600
Places:	Battle Abbey, Sussex Wye, Kent
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C44786 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O2056 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	11th cent-16th cent: deeds from c1070, 2 cartularies, manorial records and estate papers from c1252, abbey and obedientiary accounts from c1300	Huntington Library	HEH BA	NRA 34312 Webster See Davis Cartularies (nos 29,31); microfilm copies in ESRO; NRA 10029; Monastic Res Bull 3,p10, 5,p5
2	c1100-14th cent: charters (12th cent), almoner's and sacristan's rolls (14th cent), inspeximus re possessions	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)	MT/2	NRA 1003 Battle Abbey deeds
3	c1101-1521: charters (c1101-1253), almoner's (1378/9) and sacristan's (1520/1) account rolls, rental and custumal (1433), tithe papers (from 1276)	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)	BAT 1-17, 39-40, 1406-31	See East Sussex Record Office Battle Abbey Estate Archives 1973
4	mid 12th cent-1540: charters (12th-16th cents), survey of possessions (16th cent), proceedings v Vicar of Westfield (13th cent), almoner's accounts (1403-1535), manorial records (14th-16th cents), leases (16th cent)	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)	SAS/G Add Mss 2535: Part I,Part II:Box 16,Part IV:Boxes 44-5, Addnl	NRA 9421 Gage
5	charters, rentals, surveys, obedientiary and manorial account rolls, court rolls	The National Archives		See East Sussex Record Office Battle Abbey Estate Archives 1973
6	1065-1286: charters (nd) and chronicle 1065-1286	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections		See East Sussex Record Office Battle Abbey Estate Archives 1973
7	c1140-1527: charters (35)	London University: Senate House Library	Fuller collection I/28/1-34b	NRA 22628 Battle Abbey See Monastic Research Bulletin 5,p5
8	1312-1526: royal charters (inspeximus 1312, 1432) and lease (1526)	West Sussex Record Office	Cowdray Mss 1,6,7	NRA 9134 Cowdray
9	c1107-1510: charters and deeds	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add Ch 20076,20116-8,20121-2,20148,20161	See British Library index of manuscripts
10	1224: composition with rector of Brightwalton re tithes	Salisbury Cathedral Archives		See HMC 55: Var Coll I, p340
11	1287-1495: obedientary accounts (1287-1484) and court rolls for Battle (1530-59) and accounts of Barnehome manor in Bexhill (1354-1495)	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)	BAT, Add Mss 4900-4938	NRA 1211 Battle manor
12	13th cent: account of the abbey's possessions in narrative form, incl chronicle 1066-1176	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Dommi. A.ii, fos 8-130	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.32); printed:JS Brewer (ed) 1846 and trans MA Lower 1851
13	13th cent: cartulary	Lincoln's Inn Archives	Hale Ms 87	See Davis (no 28); Annual Return 1994 (Microfilm in East Sussex RO A6349); Monastic Res Bull 3,p10, 5,p5
14	13th cent: William of Malmesbury 'Gesta regum anglorum' with award of Norham addressed to abbot and convent	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Claudius C.IX, fos 18-103	See Monastic Research Bulletin 8,p28
15	13th-15th cent: volume containing collection of original late 14th cent final concords, notes of pleas, writs etc	The National Archives	Exch Augm Off: Misc Books 18,56-7,488,493	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (nos 36-7)
16	early 14th cent: parts of 2 rolls of deeds rel to Wye and Pluckley, Kent	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Campbell Ch.xvi,11,12	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.33)
17	14th-16th cent: partial cartulary rel mainly to manor of Angley	Kent History and Library Centre	U3848
18	14th cent: register of abbey's legal proceedings and other acta	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Harley 3586, fos 2-66	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.34)
19	late 14th-early 15th cent: 2 quires of a cartulary mainly rel to property in Cranbrook, Kent	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development	U1044	NRA 651 See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no 30); Monastic Research Bulletin 5,p5
20	c1410-1521: draft account rolls	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)	ACC 7032	See Annual Return 2013
21	1466-1521: abbots and obedientiary accounts (c1505-20), court roll (1466/7), accounts of beadle and farmer of Wye (1499-1521)	Hastings Museum and Art Gallery		See East Sussex Record Office Battle Abbey Estate Archives 1973
22	1486-94: list of rents due to the abbot for Wye	Canterbury Cathedral Archives	U15/34/1	NRA 34277 Canterbury CC
23	1493: letters of privilege	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)	ACC 13054	See Annual Return 2018
24	16th cent: register of pleas and abstracts of charters rel to the abbey's lands in Wye, etc	London University: Wye College Library		See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no 35)