The Crawford Collection of Early Charters and Documents: Now in the Bodleian Library (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Arthur S. Napier

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ISBN 10: 1332312217 ISBN 13: 9781332312214

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from The Crawford Collection of Early Charters and Documents: Now in the Bodleian Library

The nucleus of the collection is a valuable set of documents relating to Crediton monastery, which restore to us a large portion of the forgotten history of that foundation. These Crediton muniments (nos. I, II, III, IV, VII, X, XIII) have been, no doubt, kept together from the time of the dissolution of the monastery, for they probably remained at Crediton after the bishop's see was transferred thence to Exeter, since Crediton retained its chapter until the dissolution of the monasteries 2. Certainly No. XIII, Bishop Warelwast's confirmation of the liberties of the canons, must have come from Crediton long after the transfer of the see. Possibly these charters came from Crediton Free School, upon which Edward VI conferred the church and some of the lands of this old foundation. To these Crediton documents have been added two Westminster charters (nos. VI, IX), which, as we have said, were in possession of the Dean and Chapter in 1705 and 1702; a charter (no. XI) that formerly belonged to the great monastery of St. Albans, where it passed under the eyes of Matthew of Paris; a charter (no. XII) from the monastery of St. Augustine, Canterbury; another (no. VIII) that probably owes its preservation to the monks of Coventry; and one (no. V) whose earlier home we are unable to trace. The few twelfth-century charters (nos. XIV to XVII) have obviously no relationship to any of the foundations above named, and they were.

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Excerpt from The Crawford Collection of Early Charters and Documents: Now in the Bodleian Library The collection of Mss. of which these charters form a part was purchased by the Curators of the Bodleian Library at the sale of the library of W. H. Crawford, of Lakelands, county Cork, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, on March 14, 1891. The charters are inserted in a large oblong scrap book, bound in Russia leather, now numbered 'MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, ' kept as 'Arch, F. a. 3.' The remainder of the collection, which has been removed from this volume and transferred to other classes in the Bodleian, comprises fifty-one later charters, thirty-six of which relate to Surrey, from c. 1230 to 1537; a fragment of a Walsingham abbey chartulary (MS. Top. Norf. b. I); an early-eleventh cent. fragment of St. John's Gospel ii. 6-iii. 34 and vi. 19-vii. 10 in Old English (MS. Eng. Bib. c. 2), printed by A. S. Napier in the Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen vol 87, p. 255; and fragments of Persius, the Achilleis of Statius, Avianus, and the Carmen Paschale of Sedulius (MS. Lat. class. d. 7). Other fragments, mainly Latin, have the following Press Marks: Gr. liturg. c. 2; Lat. Bib. c. I; Lat. liturg. d. 3; Lat. th. c. 3; Lat. misc. c. 7; Eng. poet. f. I (fragment of a seventeenth century transcript of an English chronicle); Fr. b. I. Little is known of the history of this collection. The volume containing them bears no owner's name except that of Mr. Crawford, to whom the collection was sold by Mr. Quaritch some twenty years ago. The binding appears to be about a hundred years old, and as No. VI was in possession of Robert Austen, F. S. A., of Shalford Hall, co. Surrey, in 1791, it is probable that the collection was made or completed by him. This suggestion will account for the number of Surrey deeds in the collection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a re

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332312217
• ISBN 13: 9781332312214
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186