Memorials of St Edmund's Abbey

This three-volume collection (1890–6) of medieval documents relating to Bury St Edmunds is valuable for ecclesiastical and civic history.

Thomas Arnold (Edited by)

9781108053327, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

542 pages, 1 map
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.79 kg

Bury St Edmunds possessed one of the wealthiest abbeys in England. This three-volume collection of Latin documents relating to the abbey was edited by Thomas Arnold (1823–1900) and published between 1890 and 1896. Volume 3 contains a variety of records. The Cronica Buriensis covers the years 1020–1346 in a manuscript of c.1400, and the Brevis Cronica, possibly by Thomas Croftis, c.1479, covers 1020–1471. There is also a collection of fifteenth-century letters, excerpts from Cambridge manuscripts relating to Bury St Edmunds, an account of the fourteenth-century dispute between the abbey and Bishop Bateman of Norwich, and a description of the fire of 1465 that completely gutted the church. The appendices include by-laws of 1477 concerning the town weavers, a charter of privileges of 1447, and another life of St Edmund. A glossary and index to all three volumes are also provided, along with English side-notes throughout.

Cronica Buriensis, 1020–1346
Collectanea Astoni
Excerpta Cantabrigiensia
Versified charters
Fifteenth century letters
Incendium ecclesiae
Brevis cronica
Appendices
Glossary
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]