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Transcripts relating to Rochester Priory

Reference code
MSS/0178
Title
Transcripts relating to Rochester Priory
Date
18th century
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
fols. 112-176 of a composite volume.
Folio.
Bound and foliated with MSS/0177, and part of MSS/0188.
Scope and content
Transcripts relating to Rochester Priory made by Thomas Allen and John Baynard, amanuenses to John Thorpe, senior; after 1715. Consisting of:-

(1) Accounts (compoti) of officials of Rochester Priory and Cathedral, temp. Ric.II-Hen.VIII. fols. 112-55;-

(2) Excerpts of reliefs paid at manor courts held for Rochester priory, temp. Edw.II and III. fols. 157-76.

These transcripts are described in detail in Ellis (1816), 55-6, as 178 (arts.1-8); the remainder of 178 (Ellis, arts.9-14) is bound with 189*. See Perceval's contents list for the present volume, fol. iii.
Creator
Thorpe, John (1682-1750), antiquary
Thorpe, John (1715-1792), antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/178