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Transcripts of deeds relating to monasteries and churches in the diocese of Rochester

Reference code
MSS/0167
Title
Transcripts of deeds relating to monasteries and churches in the diocese of Rochester
Date
after 1715
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
ff .v + 93; i + 89; i + 92.
Folio.
Vellum binding.
Scope and content
Transcripts by John Thorpe, senior, of deeds relating to monasteries and churches in the diocese of Rochester. Three volumes, containing deeds numbered 1-130, 131-214, 215-71 and unnumbered, with a table of contents at the end of each. Most of the charters were printed by John Thorpe, junior, in the Registrum Roffense (1769). List of Bishops of Rochester, in the hand of Thomas Allen, amanuensis to Thorpe, Vol. I, fols. ii-iii.

Two fragments of a Jousting Cheque, 1595, unrelated to the Thorpe collection but found with MSS/0167/1, 168, are now at MSS/0167/1, fols. 93a, b.
Creator
Thorpe, John (1682-1750), antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/167/1-3
SAL/MS/167