Transcripts of Charters relating to Gilbertine Houses
Transcripts of Charters relating to Gilbertine Houses
Edited by F.M. Stenton, M.A. Professor of Modern History, University College, Reading
Increasing expenses and a falling revenue compelled Henry IV, eight times in his short reign, to obtain extraordinary grants of money from Parliament and Convocation. The charters of which copies are printed in this book were shown to the barons of the Exchequer by the attorney of five Lincolnshire monasteries of the Gilbertine order, the priories of Catley, Ormsby, Alvingham, Sixle and Bullington, which claimed that their possessions were exempt from such taxation. The exchequer allowed the claim. The charters which had been submitted as evidence were enrolled upon the Memoranda Roll of the King’s Remembrancer with a record of the circumstances which had led to their production.
Adapted from the Introduction to the volume.
Contents
- Contents, 1 page
- Preface, 1 page
- Errata, 1 page
- Introduction, 28 pages
- Sixle Priory and Series, 38 pages in Latin and 38 pages in English
- Ormsby Series, 33 pages in Latin and 33 pages in English,
- Catley Priory and Series, 19 pages in Latin and 19 pages in English
- Bullington Priory and Series, 11 pages in Latin and 11 pages in English
- Alvingham Priory and Series, 12 pages in Latin and 12 pages in English
- Index I Persons and Places, 45 pages
- Index II Counties and Countries, 3 pages
- Index III Subjects, 5 pages
Language: Latin with English translation on facing pages.
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