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Title: Battle Abbey archives addenda
Dates: 1372-1528
Collection Number: mssHM 82452-82457
Creator OR Collector:
Battle Abbey
Extent:
6 deeds in one box
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: A group of six estate-related deeds for the Benedictine abbey of St. Martin at Battle, Sussex.
Language of Material: The records are in Latin and English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader
Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and
obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item], Battle Abbey archives addenda, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Purchased through Maggs from Sotheby's, Lot 5, April 13, 1981.
The Benedictine abbey of St. Martin at Battle, Sussex; founded by William the Conqueror to commemorate his victory over Harold
at Hastings. The abbey possessed lands in Sussex, Berkshire, Essex, Surrey, and Kent. After the Dissolution, the abbey and
its immediately adjacent lands, together with the lands in Sussex and Kent, were sold to Sir Anthony Browne, Henry VIII's
Master of the Horse, whose son Anthony was created 1st Viscount Montague in 1554. In 1721 the lands were sold to Sir Thomas
Webster, a prosperous London merchant. The Battle estate remained in the family until 1976. Since then it has been the property
of the Department of the Environment.
Arranged chronologically.
Six deeds, 1372-1528. One deed is a grant for life to John de Mapples in Beauchief, Derbyshire (HM 82452); mistakenly attributed
to Battle in Sussex by an earlier cataloger. The other five deeds include grants, leases and contracts for the Abbey of St.
Martin at Battle, Sussex (HM 82453-82457).
Because of the separate source and date of acquisition the decision was made to catalog this group of deeds as an addenda
to the Battle Abbey archives rather than integrate the deeds with the existing archives here at the Huntington Library (Battle
Abbey archives, 1077-1780, approximately 3,000 pieces).
Browne (Family)
Webster (Family)
Battle Abbey -- Archives
Benedictine monasteries -- England -- History
Monasteries -- England
Real property -- England -- Early works to 1800
Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485
Great Britain -- History -- 14th century
Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
Deeds -- Great Britain
Estate records -- Great Britain
Property records -- Great Britain