Abstracts of the Charters and Other Documents Contained in the Chartulary of the Priory of Bridlington: In the East Riding of the County of York (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The Augustinian Priory of Bridlington was established by Walter de Gaunt between the years 1114 and 1124. It was suppressed by Henry VIII in 1537. In the intervening period of four centuries it had acquired estates which would now be worth many thousands of pounds yearly. This volume shows how those estates, or the bulk of them, were obtained.

The following pages represent the contents of the Chartulary of the Priory, which, fortunately, remains to us. It is a volume of 352 leaves of vellum, the leaves being about 15} inches long and 9% inches wide. It is enclosed in the original wooden boards, which are covered with deerskin. It was secured by two leather clasps, one of which only remains. The original writing is large and clear, and the ink very little faded. As is usual in such chartularies, a number of documents were inserted at later dates by other hands in the blank Spaces left by the original scribe; these have been distinguished in the footnotes in the present work. The charters in the ms. Are headed in red, and their initials are alternately red and blue. The margins are ornamented with red or blue scroll-work. The writing is in double columns, each column having generally about 43 lines, irrespective of headings. On the whole, the volume must be pronounced a very fine specimen of a mon astic chartulary. The frontispiece to this work will afford, on a small scale, an idea of the general style of the pages as they originally appeared.

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