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Order NumberCCA-DCc/Register/B
TitlePriory Register
PreviousNumbersRegister B.2
Date1250x1500
DescriptionProbably called 'The Red Book' in the C15th.
A cartulary mainly containing doomsday extracts, deeds, extents, rentals for priory extra Kent manors
f1. Farningham.
f15. Orpington.
f31. Walworth.
f41. Vauxhall.
f47. Middleton.
f55. Southchurch.
f96. Lalling.
f116. Bocking, with Bonington.
f141. Mersea.
f143. Illeigh.
f159. Stisted.
f171. Sandwich.
f173. Borley.
f181. Hadleigh.
f213. Deopham.
f224. Ashbocking.
f233. London
f287. Barnes
f288. Cobham.
f291. Ireland.
f304. Scotland.
f307. Fines levied in royal courts. This and the following section should be at the end of Register E; they were incorrectly bound here in C15.
f315. Services and customs.
f317. Agney
f318. Elverton.
f319. Merstham.
f320. Hadleigh.
f321. Westerham.
f330. Patching.
f333. Wootton.
f335. Cheam.
f337. Merstham.
f342. Horsley.
f344. Halton.
f347. Risborough (Newington ff354r-354v)
f361. Newington.
f364. Brightwell.
f365. Charlwood.
f366. Oxford.
f392. Doccombe.
f395. Diverse places.
f406. Compendium of: husbandry treatise; statute of merchants; usages and customs of Kent; duties of priory lay servants; English vocabulary; bread assize; ecclesiastical taxation; formulary for professions; process for choosing a prior; survey of land sewn to corn on priory manors; almoner's rental; survey of tithes due to religious houses.
Also a seperate folder of folios long detatched from Reg B which should be infront of f1 (contents); f14a (Farringham); ff405a-d (diverse places).
ExtentParchment book, 443ff with 2 paper and 6 parchment flyleaves and leather-covered boards + separate folder of 10ff
LanguageLatin
AccessStatusOpen
CopiesAVALIABLE ON MICROFILM (Harvester Roll 2). Digitised in 2 parts
Related MaterialDCc-ChAnt/F/21 is cited as being copied from 'The Red Book'.
Reference to 'Red Book' in DCc-ChAnt/F/37
Publication NoteExtracts
HMC Eighth Report Appendix (1881), 321-326

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