Descriptive catalogue of the original charters, royal grants, and donations, many with the seals, in fine preservation, monastic chartulary, official, manorial, court baron, court leet, and rent rolls, registers, and other documents, constituting the muniments of Battle Abbey... : comprising also a great mass of papers relating to the family of Browne, ennobled as the Lords Viscount Montague...with various others relating to the Sidneys, Earls of Leicester, and the whole of the Webster family evidences etc...it is presumed no collection of manuscripts of equal importance, in a national point of view, has ever been offered for sale... / on sale by Thomas Thorpe, no. 38, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London.
Alternate Title(s):
Catalogue of the charters, grants, and immunities of Battle Abbey, Sussex, founded by William the Conqueror, in commemoration of the Battle of Hastings, and the conquest of England.
Published / Created:
London : Printed by J. Rider, Little Britain, London, 1835.
Physical Description:
xii, 221, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
The collection was sold to Sir Thomas Phillipps.
Contents:
"Preliminary memoranda of the Abbey of Battle"--preceeds catalogue proper.
Subject Terms:
Sussex (England) -- Genealogy. | Brown family -- Archives. | Sidney family -- Archives. | Webster family -- Archives. | Thorpe, Thomas, 1791–1851 -- Catalogs. | Battle Abbey -- Archives. | Booksellers' catalogs -- Great Britain. | Manuscripts -- Catalogs. | Private libraries -- England. | England -- Sussex. | Roberts, M. -- Autograph. | Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate.