Memorials of St Edmund's Abbey - Volume 3

Bury St Edmunds possessed one of the wealthiest abbeys in England. This three-volume collection of Latin documents relating to the abbey was edited by Thomas Arnold (18231900) and published between 1890 and 1896. Volume 3 contains a variety of records. The Cronica Buriensis covers the years 10201346 in a manuscript of c.1400 and the Brevis Cronica possibly by Thomas Croftis c.1479 covers 10201471. There is also a collection of fifteenth-century letters excerpts from Cambridge manuscripts relating to Bury St Edmunds an account of the fourteenth-century dispute between the abbey and Bishop Bateman of Norwich and a description of the fire of 1465 that completely gutted the church. The appendices include by-laws of 1477 concerning the town weavers a charter of privileges of 1447 and another life of St Edmund. A glossary and index to all three volumes are also provided along with English side-notes throughout.