Lansdown MS., 404. "Liber de Origine Monasterij Fontanensis. Sæc 17." 34 pages. Fol. 2-36.2

BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD.

Among the Rawlinson MSS., No., is a 4to volume containing 152 leaves, which appears to be the earliest Chartulary of the Abbey. Like other books of the same class it contains charters copied at different times, from that of Stephen downwards, to the middle of the 15th century. The principal charters commence at fol. 20 with the "Carte de Aldeburg.' It appears that Dugdale printed his Charters, commencing L1, vol. 5. from this volume, as his foliation agrees uniformly with the MS. There are about thirty charters in this division. The next comprise the charters relating to Baldersby, some eighty or ninety, of which about fifty are in the earlier hand. Eseby and Raynington follow in a different and later hand, and much abridged. Catton, Skyton, and Renton are in the same hand. At fol. 60 the charters of Picale commence, and in a very early hand. Then Rokesby in the Eseby hand, as also Aynderby and Melmerby. At fol. 88 occur the charters of Brinebem, in the earliest hand, followed by those of Caytone, Bradleya, Yeland, Fekesby, De la Haya, Lindleia, Morker, and Dacre, all in nearly the same writing, and that very early. Besides these there are merely some additions and table of charters of different periods. At the beginning of the volume is the note, "Perlegit Richardus Gascoigne, 26 Oct., 1629." (H. O. Coxe, Sub. Lib. Bode, July 5, 1860).

The Dodsworth MSS. contain transcripts from Chartularies and Charters of Fountains not now known to remain, particularly a Chartulary blown up in St. Mary's Tower, York, and another, then in the possession of Sir Henry Savill.

IN THE LIBRARY OF UNIVERSITY COLL., OXFORD.-[J. 1.]

A Folio Volume, on parchment, containing copies of the Royal Charters and Papal Bulls of privileges granted to the Abbey of Fountains, and entitled "Cartæ Regum Angliæ et Privilegia Pontificum Abbatiæ de Fontibus in agro Eborz. cona fol. 1 ad. 60-to which is added "Privilegia et

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(2) Printed in Memorials of Fountains, vol. I., from this and a MS. roll in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.

immunitates ordinis Cisterciensis per Johannem Abbatem Cistercij collecta." A fol. 61 ad fol. 149.

This MS. belonged to the Abbey, and is frequently referred to in the President Book at Studley. With a few inconsiderable exceptions, none of the originals of these Charters are now in the Muniment Room there. The following Royal Grants may still be found on the Patent and Charter Rolls, in the Rolls House, but it is presumed that, in the absence of the MS. now under consideration, copies of all the Papal Bulls could, only, be obtained from the Register in the Vatican.

1. Henry the 1st, recited, per Inspeximus. 2. Henry the 2nd, recited, per Inspex.

3. Stephen confirming Lands, recited, per Inspex. 1. Richard the 1st, an. 1, 1189, per Inspex, Pat. 9, R 2.

5. Rich. 1, an. reg. 10, per Inspex.

6. I. Joh. Rot. Chart., m. 14. Confirmation. 86. 7. Rotul. Chart. 2 Joh. p. 1, mem. 8. Free Warren in Thorpe Underwood. 19.

8. Rotul. Chart. 7 Joh., p. 1, m. 3. 9. Rotul. Chart. 23 H. 3, p. 1, m. 2. 10. Rotul. Chart. 33 H. 3, p. 1, m. 7. at Boston, co. Linc.

Kirkeby Useburn. 19.
Confirm.

Grant of a Messuage

Free Warren, Mor

11. Rot. Chart. 8 Edw. 1, p. 1, m. 27. ker, Somerwith, Aldbrough, Sleningford, and Sutton.

12. Rot. Chart. 20 Edw. 1, p. 1, m. 6. Free Warren in Baldersby, Marton-le-Moor, Thorpe Underwood, Kilnsey, Bordelay, and Bradley-in-Craven.

The

13. 28 Edw. 1, Rotul. Patent., m. 24. Confirmation. 14. 35 Edw. 1, Rot. Pat., m. 16. Ampl. Confirm. Maneri-. orum, terrarum ac libertatum pro Abbate de Fontibus. Lord Chancellor Hamelton died at Fountains in this year. 15. 1 Edward 2. Rot. Pat. 26. Pro Abbate de Fontibus. 16. 5 Edw. 2, Ro. Patent, m. 18. Ampl. Confirmatio terrarum et libertatum pro Abbate de Fontibus.

17. 5 Edward 2, p. 1, No. 21, Rotul. Chart. Pro Abbate de Fontibus. An attested copy at Studley, made 29 May, 1633. 18. Edward the 2nd, Rotul. Patent. an. reg. 12, p. 1, m. 18. Pro Abbate de F.

19. Edward the 2nd, Rot. Pat., an. 12, p. 2, m. 9. Pro Abbate de F.

20. Edward the 2nd, Rot. Pat., an. 16, p. 1, m. 4. Pro Abbate de F.

21. Elward the 2nd, Rot. Pat., an. 16, p. 2, m. 7. Pro Abbate de F.

22. Edward the 3rd, Rot. Pat., an. 1, p. 2, m. 5. Ampla confirmatio terrarum ac tenementorum pro Abbate de Fontibus. 23. Edward the 3rd, Rot. Pat., an. 2, p. 2, m. 23. Abbate de Fontibus.

Pro

24. Edward the 3rd, Rot. Pat., an. 3, p. 1, m. 4. Exemplificacio cujusdem recordi et judicii per quod compertum fuit quod Abbas de Fontibus non tenetur reparare pontem de Bradley in com. Ebor.

25. Edward the 3rd, Rot. Pat., an. 14, p. 1, m. 39. Exemplificacio judicii in Assissis pro Priore de Wartre versus Abbatem de Fontibus pro communia pasturæ et estoverijs in vasto de Queldryke (Wheldrake, near York).

26. Edward the 3rd, Rotul. Pat.. an. 18, p. 1, m. 1. Pro Abbate de Fontibus.

27. Edward the 3rd, Rotul. Chart., an. 23, p. 1, m. 5. Pro Abbate de Fontibus.

28. Edward the 3rd, Rotul. Pat., an. 27, p. 1, m. 15, 18. Ampl. libertat' confirm Abb. de Fontibus.

29. Edward the 3rd, Rotul. Pat., an. 30, p. 1, m. 16. Pro Abbate de Fontibus.

30. Richard the 3rd, Rotul. Pat, an. 36, p. 2, m. 17. Ampla confirmatio de diversis maneriis et libertatibus pro Abbate de Fontibus.

31. Edward the 3rd, Rotul. Chart., an. 40, n. 8. Confirm. Abb. de Fontibus.

32. Richard the 2nd, Rotul. Pat., an. 3, p. 3, m. 19. Ampla confirmatio pro Abbate de Fontibus prout in Chart. 40 Edw. 3. 33. Richard the 2nd, Rotul. Pat., an. 4, p. 1, m. 39. Pro Abbate de Fontibus.

34. Richard the 2nd, Rotul. Pat., an. 9, p. 2, m. 25. Perampla confirmatio quamplurium maneriorum, terr', ten' ac libertat' pro Abbate de Fontibus, prout in 40 Edw. 3, Chart.

35. Richard the 2nd, Rotul. Pat., an. 9, p. 10, m. 26. Alia perampla confirmatio eidem fact' de certis maneriis, terris, tenementis, libera chacea in Brimbem, in chacea de Niderdale, ac alia ampla proficua et libertat' in dicta chacea de Niderdale, ac in chacea de Kirkby, annuatim capienda ei concessa per Johannem de Mowbray dominum de Axholm et de Brember.

[The original Charter is at Studley].

36. Richard the 2nd, Rot. Pat., an. 16, p. 3, m. 4. Pro Abbate de Fontibus.

37. Henry the 4th, Rot. Pat., an. 3, p. 2, m. 18. de Fontibus. 38. Henry the 6th, Rot. Pat., an. 3, p. 2, m. 2. firm.maner' terr'. ac libert' pro Abbate de Fontibus. 40, Edw. 3.

Pro Abbate

Ampl con-
Vide Chart.

39. Edward the 4th, Rot. Pat., an. 16, p. 1, m. 4. Pro Abbate de Fontaunce.

This valuable Record was given to the Library of University College before, or in, the year 1697; as it is said by the Rev. Dr. Hugh Todd, canon of Carlisle, who sprung from a respectable family, long resident at Wath, near Ripon.

The Royal and Archiepiscopal Charters were kept at Fountains, in a separate chest. The compiler of the Chartulary used by Dugdale, noting on Thurstan's confirmation of the grant made by Robert de Saiz, "Hoc invenietur in teca Regum et Archiepiscoporum." (Mon. Angl., vii.)

In addition to these Royal Confirmations (printed in this present volume) the MS. contains all the Papal Privileges.

MSS. AT RIPLEY CASTLE.

Registrum Chartarum Monasterii Sanctæ Mariæ de Fontibus, in comitatu Eboracensi.-This noble volume, which retains its original binding, is the second portion of a Register of all the documents relating to the estates of the Abbey of Fountains which was prepared, apparently by Abbot Huby, in the reign of King Henry VII. The first volume, containing the Charters of places under the first three letters of the alphabet, had come into the possession of Sir Robert Cotton, as early as the year 1625, and is now in the Cottonian Library in the British Museum, where it is marked Tiberius, C., XII. It narrowly escaped destruction in the fire which broke out in the Library, on the 23rd October, 1731; but the damage which the margin sustained is now the less visible, since it has lately been inlaid and magnificently rebound.

The present volume, which contains the Charters of estates under the letters D to J, appears from a memorandum in the 116th volume of Dodsworth's Collections, in the Bodleian Library, to have been "in custodia W. Ingelbi" in the year 1619. There is, indeed, an entry on the first leaf relating to the pagination of an Index Locorum at page 46, signed "25 Decembr 1619. Richarde Gascoigne," but as that well-known antiquary could not even refrain from writing a note in the

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Archiepiscopal Register at York, opposite the great Judge Gascoigne's will, these entries may not be conclusive proof either that he was then the owner of the volume, or that Mr. Ingilby had obtained it from him. A note, of this period, on the first folio, "This bouke hath in leaves the number of 291" is still correct; and, together with Gascoigne's pagination, shews that some leaves which have belonged to it, and are now among the Records of Fountains at Studley-Royal, had been extracted at a remote period; probably when the records and papers of the Abbey were dispersed at its dissolution. They contain charters of lands in Fountains, Hopperton, Horton, Ilkton, Ingerthorpe, and Ilkley. The leaves containing the charters of Hutton-Conyers, and the first sixteen charters of Galphay, are lost. From a transcript of a warrant, issued by Bishop Juxon, Lord High Treasurer, now among Le Neve's papers in the British Museum (Harl. MS. 6822, fol. 37,) it appears that Mr. Ingilby was once not only in danger of losing this Chartulary, but also that of Bolton Priory in Craven, which was long afterwards preserved at Ripley Castle. It does not appear that the mandate was in any instance obeyed, but it is an interesting illustration of "the high prerogative days" and affords useful proof of the former place of deposit of several of the most valuable Northern Chartularies. It runs as follows:

"Whereas, upon the petition of John Rauson, keeper of his Majestie's house of records and evidences, called St. Marie tower at York, I am enformed that the coucher bookes of the Monasteries and Abbeys of Monkbretton, Meux, Fountaynes, Boulton, Whitbye, Drax, Selby, Pontefract, Roche, Bridlington, and of the cell of St. Martine neere Richmond, in the county of York, doe nowe remayne in your several custodies, thro' the want whereof his Majesty is much prejudiced in his revenues and liberties belonging to the said late dissolved monisteries and abbeyes, and his subjects oftentimes put to causeless and unnecessarie suits in lawe, which otherwyse might be determined and decided with much lesse expence of monies and losse of tyme, yf the forsaid coucher books were remayning in a publique office of record, where everie man might have free access to come unto them at their liberties and pleasures, which said books are conceyved meerely and properly to be the King's records and evidences, and not of anie private subjects of what estate or condition soever. These are therefore to will and require you to delyver unto the said John Rauson, such coucher book and books of the monasteries and abbies aforesaid as shall remayne in