Durham Cathedral Archive: Medieval Accounting Material: Cells

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Introduction

	Contents
	Arrangement
	Related material elsewhere

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Catalogue

• Cells
• Prior of Coldingham
• Sacrist of Coldingham
• Master of Farne
• Prior of Finchale
• with Manor of Wingate
• Prior of Holy Island
• Master of Jarrow
• Prior of Lytham
• Prior of Stamford
• Master of Wearmouth
• Durham College Oxford
• Foundation
• Accounts of Warden & Bursars
• Frampton church

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Contents

With one significant exception the three lists of medieval accounts aim to cover all the medieval accounting material found in the Durham Cathedral Archive, together with items from the series of accounts that has been found elsewhere. The exception is material relating to the collection of taxation, briefly listed near the top of the list of Manorial etc accounts: for this to be dealt with properly will require examination of the corresponding material in The National Archives.
In the lists that follow all items simply defined by date are accounts. For all other accounting material a brief indication of its nature is given, in terms that match those used in the reference to the document, e.g. Bursar, Sale of Tithes. Here, however, the dates covered by each item are given as fully as possible, and where these are not taken directly from the heading, either because it is lost or damaged, or because it does not give full details, this is shown by square brackets, [ ].

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Accession details

Deposited by the Dean and Chapter of Durham in 1947.

Copyright and copying

Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from Durham Cathedral Library (library@durhamcathedral.co.uk). The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.

Arrangement

The accounts are listed by accountant, in chronological order. They are identified by their date: a date alone shows that it is the standard document for the section (usually this means it is an account, but in a section such as Bursar-Granator Indentures it will be an indenture. Where accounts contain other information this is given in the description. If the document is not of the standard form, the date is qualified in some form, such as Status, 1328, which serves to differentiate it from the main sequence. Where more than one version of a document occurs it is marked within the description by a series of letters (A), (B) etc. On a few occasions there are two different documents of the same type in the same year, which have separate entries, such as Status, 1328 (A) and Status, 1328 (B) - where these have separate entries they are different documents, where included under the same heading they are duplicates.
The rounded heads of the rolls may have been carried out as late as the nineteenth century, as on Hostiller 1353-4 where modern writing on the dorse has been partly cut away.

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The large group of medieval accounts was listed in a single catalogue, but as more detail is added it has expanded and has been divided into three sections (December 2017) as follows:
Obedientiaries (office holders)
Subsidiary estates and manors
Cells of Durham Priory (this catalogue)

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Related material elsewhere

British Library MS Harley 5289 ff. 497-8
Proctor of Norham's account: [c.1527 x 1539], two pieces. Castlefield unsown. Hand as other accounts at that date.
Bibliography Surtees Society publications (in order of issue)
Raine, J. ed., The priory of Finchale. The charters of endowment, inventories, and account rolls, of the priory of Finchale, in the county of Durham SS 6 (1837)
Raine, J. ed., Historiae Dunelmensis scriptores tres: Gaufridus de Coldingham, Robertus de Greystanes, et Willielmus de Chambre SS 9 (1839)
Raine, J. ed., The priory of Coldingham. The correspondence, inventories, account rolls, and law proceedings, of the priory of Coldingham SS 12 (1841)
Raine, J. ed., The Durham household book; or, the accounts of the bursar of the monastery of Durham from Pentecost 1530 to Pentecost 1534 SS 18 (1844)
Raine, J. ed., The inventories and account rolls of the Benedictine houses or cells of Jarrow and Monk-Wearmouth, in the county of Durham SS 29 (1854)
Fowler, J.T. ed., Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham vols. i-iii, SS 99; 100; 103 (1898; 1899; 1901)
Storey, R.L., ed., The register of Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, 1406-1437 SS 164; 166; 169; 170; 177; 182. (1956; 1957; 1959; 1961; 1966; 1970)
Other references
Ash, M. “The Administration of the Diocese of St Andrews”, PhD Newcastle 1972
Blakiston, H.E.D. ed., “Some Durham College rolls”, in M. Burrows ed., Collectanea. Third Series, Oxford Historical Society 32 (1896)
Burton, T. & Raine, J. The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hemingbrough (York, 1888)
Dobson, R.B., Durham priory, l400-l450 (Cambridge 1973)
Fishwick, H. ed., The History of the Parish of Lytham in the county of Lancaster, Chetham Society 60 (1907).
Fowler, J.T., ed. “Inventory of the vestments, books, etc., of the priory of Finchale, A.D. 1481”, Trans. Archaeological & Architectural Society of Durham & Northumberland iv (1890-95), 134-47
Pantin, W.A. Documents illustrating the activities of the General and Provincial Chapters of the English Black Monks
Piper, A.J., “Evidence of accounting and local estate services at Durham: c. 1240”, Archives xx (1992), 36-9.
Raine, J. The history and antiquities of North Durham (1852)
Woolgar, C.M., ed. Household Accounts from Medieval England ii, (Oxford, 1993)
A history of the county of York (Victoria County History) vol. iii, (1913)
Abbreviations An indication is given where documents have been printed, extracted or mentioned. Where this is followed by a number, this refers to a volume of the Surtees Society:
6: J. Raine ed., The Priory of Finchale. ... (1837).
9: J. Raine ed., Historiae Dunelmensis scriptores tres: ... (1839).
12: J. Raine ed., The Priory of Coldingham. ... (1841).
18: J. Raine ed., The Durham Household Book; ... (1844).
29: J. Raine ed., The Inventories and Account Rolls of the Benedictine Houses or Cells of Jarrow and Monk-Wearmouth, ... (1854).
99: J.T. Fowler ed., Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham i (1898).
100: J.T. Fowler ed., Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham ii (1899).
103: J.T. Fowler ed., Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham iii (1901).
In a number of cases the indication refers to more than one place in Volumes 99, 100 and 103; this arises when separated pieces of the same account have been rejoined.
For Lytham the references "CS" are to:
H. Fishwick ed., The History of the Parish of Lytham ..., Chetham Society 60 (1907).
For Oxford "OHS" refers to:
H.E.D. Blakiston, “Some Durham College rolls”, in M. Burrows ed., Collectanea. Third Series, Oxford Historical Society 32 (1896).

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Catalogue

Cells