CH/1/1

CH/1/1

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Chapter Act Book, 1329-1352

Hemingsby

1329 - 1352

1 volume

Known as Hemingsby. The first entry in the act book is dated November 1329 but it was not until 1331 that the register began to be regularly kept. There is a select table of contents arranged in two columns, the work of the chancellor and communar, Richard Drake, in 1668. The original intention seems to have been to arrange the items according to subject rather than to date; but, although some attempt was made to keep separate records of admission of canons and vicars, the initial plan was not generally adhered to, with the result that the arrangement of the contents as a whole appears somewhat haphazard. Each entry has its own contemporary marginal heading, and there are, in addition, numerous marginalia in many different hands and of many different periods. Published by the Records Branch of the Wiltshire Record Society, Volume XVIII, 1963, edited by Helena M Chew. The contents of the books is transcribed by not translated, also contains extensive biographical notes.

Latin

Material: parchment Binding: parchment

Hemingsby, John