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RETURN TO BAYHAM The Bayham cartulary is in the British Library (BL Cotton Otho A.ii). There is currently no publication of this cartulary, but Sussex Record Society have commissioned Marie Tranchant to produce a volume in the near future. The

RETURN TO BAYHAM The best history of Bayham is that written by S. E. Rigold around 1974 and published in the DoE guide to Bayham Abbey. I have reproduced the relevant section of his text verbatim, below: ORIGINS AND FOUNDATION

Aberystwyth, NLW., Gwysaney 15 Gen. cartulary, early 15th century, with rubrics, red initials etc. Contains copies of private deeds arranged mainly by grantors, one royal Inspeximus and, at the beginning, Pope Lucius III’s privileges to the Premonstratensian Order (1183). An

BM., Cotton Otho A ii. Gen. cartulary, 13th cent. (c.1245?), written in book-hand with rubrics etc. and occasional red initials. Arranged in sections mainly topographically (papal charters, fos. 6-9; royal and episcopal documents, fos. 48-51; compositions and fines, fos. 60-4;

BM., Cotton Faust B. i. Fos 30 – 179. Gen. cartulary, late 13th cent. (temp. Edw I) with rubrics, red paragraphs etc. Contains copies of private and some episcopal etc. charters arranged topographically, followed (fos. 93v ff.) by misc. 13th-14th

The Premonstratensian Order This text is adapted from the introduction to the DoE Bayham Abbey guide booklet (1974) by Stuart Rigold. The map is from The White Canons by Howard Colvin (1951) The Premonstratensian order was founded by St Norbert

RETURN TO BROCKLEY The monastic phase at Brockley is so short (less than 30 years) that the likelihood of substantial archaeological survival of monastic structures is minimal. However, some buildings must have been in existence by the end of the

RETURN TO BROCKLEY Bayham Abbey was amongst the twenty-nine houses chosen by Cardinal Wolsey for dissolution in 1526, to fund his new schools and colleges in Ipswich and Oxford. In 1529 following Wolsey’s attainder the manor of Brockley was seized

RETURN TO BROCKLEY ORIGINS & FOUNDATION There is no recorded reason why the canons of Sulby (in Northamptonshire) should choose to settle at Brockley in Kent. Colvin suggests the connection may be that Aubrey de Vere II, the father of

RETURN TO BROCKLEY Colvin, H M, 1951, The White Canons in England, Oxford. pp 109-112 Dews, N., 1884, A History of Deptford. London pp. 57; 114. Knowles, D. and Hadcock, R. N., 1953, Medieval Religious Houses in England and Wales.