Manuscripts

Account of the monastery of St Martin of Battle in the time of Sir Lawrence Champion abbot there at the time of his election ending on the vigil of St Michael 1H8'

Description: Ink number: 461
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [1508 December 8]-1509 September 28
Call number: BA 141
Creator: Battle Abbey(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from the estate of Sir Thomas Phillipps, through the agency of A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1923. In 1835 Sir Geoffrey Webster, 5th Bart., offered the monastic records in his possession, together with some family estate papers, to the bookseller Thomas Thorpe, from whom they were in turn purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps.
Associated people: Webster (Family); Browne (Family)
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