| Description | A register of priory estate documents from the time of Prior Henry Eastry, known as 'The Knobbed Book'. It comprises a number of priory rentals, extents and custumals of manors, a large number of pleas and legal business concerning the estates; also inquisitions, recognisances, royal writs, final concords, exchequer allowances and taxation assessments. A contemporary foliation begins on f23, with the title appearing on f73. It is written in a variety of hands, and some of the rentals especially predate Eastry, being of the early C13. Some of the main components are
f1. Index.
f4. Priory rental, early C13 with later annotations.
f19. Calendar.
f21. Auditor's articles.
f23. Priory rental, annotated, followed by pittances, church tithes, London rents, survey of archbishop and priory manors.
f73. 'Registrum tempore Henrici ...'
f80. Extents of East Anglian manors.
f111. 1293 eyre proceedings.
f119. Nicholas IV's taxation of Canterbury diocese.
f123. Dover castle guard fees.
f126. East Anglian estates custumal.
f191. Priory rental, part of.
f202. Priory rental, part of.
f205. Priory rental, part of.
f230. Duties and wages of priory lay servants 1322.
f220. Priory and estate new building works. |