| Description | This largely artificial series was probably created by Samuel Norris in the mid eighteenth century, as he was responsible for the binding up of much of the series in old leases, up to about MA 35. Some of these volumes were separate booklets, now not always bound up in the correct order. Others were damaged in the 1670 Audit House fire and are now very difficult to use. Most of the later numbers were probably added to the series subsequently, as they bear no marks of the fire, and comprise in the main single leaves of accounts or small note-books.
The series comprises elements of several distinct runs of documents, such as general priory rentals, bedels' and priory officers' accounts, and receivers' rough account books. The rest include various accounts emanating from one office, such as the surveyor/clerk of works, and more generally miscellaneous accounts, bills of expenses, and fragments of the like, ranging in date from the early thirteenth to the early nineteenth century in date. Almost all are financial documents and almost all concern the cathedral and its estates, but there is the odd stray from, for example, Peterborough cathedral.
The three main series of documents in Miscellaneous Accounts for the later years of the priory are
I. The Priory rentals; in chronological order: 103, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 7, 25, 26, 104, 105, 27, 28, 29, 30, 106. They are generally made up of five or six sections, which contain rents from tenants as follows (taken from MA 24)
1. Houses and shops: parishes of SS Paul, Mary Queningate, Sepulchre, Michael, Mary Magdalene, Alphege, Andrew, George, Mary Bredman, the Jews, All Saints, Peter, Holy Cross Westgate, Margaret, Mildred, Mary Northgate.
2. Gavelkind: parishes of SS Mary Northgate, Shelford, Shatterling, Paul, Sepulchre, Edmund, George, Michael, Mary Magdalene, Andrew, Alphege, All Saints, Peter, Westgate, Mary Bredman, Margaret, Mary Bredin, Mary de Castro, Mildred, Thanington, Martin, Hospital of St Jacob, Nunnery of St Sepulchre, Hospital of Poor Priests, Hospital of Eastbridge, Priory of St Gregory, Dominican Friars, Franciscan Friars, Maynard's Spital.
3. Rents which we owe to various men: Thanington, Nunnery of St Sepulchre, Hospital of Eastbridge, Hospital of St Jacob, the King, court of Westgate, heirs of Richard de Hoo, heirs of Shelford, Fordwich, Abbey of St Augustine, Monastery of Malling, Monastery of Barking, Hospital of St Lawrence, the Pope.
4. Rents of gabulum and fee farms: Patching, Farningham, Hunton, Knockholt, Hayes, Keston, Orpington, Halton at Godmersham, Seasalter, Graveney, Adisham, Mongeham, North Langdon, South Langdon, Halkelinge, Gore, 'Selveston cum Dene', 'Hardyngden', Overland, Great Pedding and 'Orkene', Bossington, Garrington, 'Ildyng', 'Cotyng and Morston' , 'Bleddyng' and Wolverton, Adisham, 'Hoddyng', Shelford and Staple, Barnsole, Ickham, Eastry, Crawthorne, 'Stormeston', Thornton by Eastry, Statenborough, Lymborough, Monkton, Geddinge, 'Hermodesole', Swarling, Westenhanger, Kennington, Warehorne, 'Elmeslonde', 'Estflete', 'Rounnescot de Elmeslonde', 'Promhell', Lachendon, 'Newlonde', Reculver, Burston, 'Weke' , 'Heryngaunte'.
5. Rents from various places: Ickham, tenants of the land of John Welles, Adisham, 'Redditus Graciam', Monkton, 'Halleland', Fordwich, Tilmanstone, Longbeech.
6. Whitstable rents paid at Xmas, Herne mill, Thornden, Chartham, Godmersham, Well and Staplefield, Brook, Mersham, Ashford, Great Chart, Tenterden, Appledore, Copton, Leysdown, 'Rysshendone', Tilbury, Meopham, Linton, Petham, Elham, 'Denne', 'Barrefelde', tithes, Dover, pensions, Chichester, Merstham, Cheam, Bocking, Illeigh, Hadleigh, Deopham, Northwich, Risborough, Newington, Holbeach in Holland, London, pensions of churches in London, Cliff.
II. The accounts of bedels and priory officers; in chronological order: 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 30, 15, 16. They generally contain accounts for (taken from MA 11)
Sacrist, Chamberlain, Granger, Warden of 'Le Maltehall' ( Bartoner), bedels of: Appledore, Mersham, Chartham, Eastry, Monkton, East Farleigh, Adisham, Chart, Westwell, Bocking, Walworth, Vauxhall, Orpington, Meopham, Hollingbourne, Bekesbourne, Caldecot, West Cliffe by Rochester, Brook, Chartham, Merstham, East Horsleigh, Ickham, East Peckham, Adisham, Godmersham, Meopham, Bocking, Lalling.
III. The accounts of the farmers; in chronological order: 6, 127, 8, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 128, 12, 116, 117, 113, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126. They generally contain the accounts of (taken from MA 12)
Seasalter rectory, 'Le Hawe cum les Strodes' in Herne, ' Cowhopis', 'Stonebache', Eastry manor, Godmersham manor, Barton manor, Chartham fulling mill, Parkhall and 'Grymerland', 'Meanelande', Amery Court with Blean tile kiln, Brook manor, Chartham corn mill, Mersham manor, Chartham manor, Little Chart manor, Westwell manor, Bekesbourne manor, Adisham manor, Copton manor, Challock rectory, Ruckinge manor, Elverton manor, Barksore manor, Orgarswick, Lydd Court, Leysdown manor, 'Bekard', Kitemarsh, Fairfield manor, Fairfield rectory, Ebony manor, Agney manor, Gripping, Gokyhall, Ruckinge, Meopham, Brooksend, Adisham, part of Kitepen alias Kitemarsh, Ebony priory, Appledore manor, Westwell rectory, Boyton manor, Hollingbourne manor, Ickham manor, East Peckham manor, West Farleigh manor, East Farleigh manor, 'Trestam' manor, Loose manor, Brooksend manor, Bramling manor, Eastry almonry, Monkton manor, West Cliff by Dover rectory, Monkton rectory, Monkton almonry, Great Chart manor, Pagham rectory, Bearsted rectory, Mundham, Bericourt, West Cliff by Rochester manor, Milton Hall manor, Southchurch manor, Lalling manor, Bocking in Mersey, Hadleigh corn mill, Hadleigh wood, Hadleigh bailiwick, Hadleigh fulling mill, Illeigh Monachorum manor, Illeigh Monachorum bedelry, Deopham manor and rectory, Borley mill, Borley manor, Panfield priory, Bocking manor, Stisted bedelry, Stisted manor, Halton manor, Newington manor, Newington bedelry, Risborough bedelry, Risborough manor, Halton mill, East Horsleigh manor, Cheam manor, Merstham manor, Edenbridge rectory, Westerham rectory, Orpington manor, Meopham manor. |