Download or read book Historical Memorials of Beauchief Abbey (Classic Reprint) written by Sidney Oldall Addy and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Memorials of Beauchief Abbey The first of these is a long Obituary, forming part of Cotton MS., Caligula E. viii. (Brit. Mus.) Of this Obituary I procured a transcript, which was collated by the able hands of W. H. Hart, Esq., F.S.A., the well-known editor of the Historia et Cartularium Monasterii S. Petri Gloucestria, (Record Publications, ) &c., &c. I must here express my obligations to Mr. Hart for the great services he has rendered me. Peck's MS. collections for a supplement to the Monasticon Anglicanum (Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 4934) have supplied me with matter of the greatest interest, particularly the letters and proceedings respecting Abbot Downham's misrule and deposition. Peck copied largely from a MS. which he cites as "Reg. Prem.;" but, except Ashmole's MS., referred to below, I have not succeeded in discovering any Register of the order. Peck, unfortunately, gives no reference; neither does Mr. Kirke, who in a paper in the Reliquary (Ap. 1867, ) on Beauchief, quotes either directly or indirectly from two Premonstratensian Registers or Visitation Books, and I have much regretted my inability to discover their whereabouts. Dr. Pegge has made some use of Peck's MSS., but he has contented himself with making imperfect copies of the two English letters, given at pp. 74 and 77 of this work. He has omitted Abbot Green's letter (p. 80) altogether, and given a scanty summary of the most interesting part of the abbey's history in an appendix. Ashmole's MS., 1519 (Bodleian), is a Visitation Book of the order in England, between the years 1475 - 1501. From this volume and Peck's MSS. all the visitations (except the first, which is taken from Mr. Kirke's paper, ) contained in this history have been taken. I am indebted to the Rev. H. O. Coxe, Bodley's Librarian, for drawing my attention to the Ashmolean MS.; and to W. H. Turner, Esq., of the Bodleian, for his well-executed transcripts of such portions of it as relate to Beauchief. The volume itself is of great historical value. Fosbrooke used it largely in the compilation of his British Monachism, and it is noticed, passim, in the account of Premonstratensian abbeys in the Monasticon. I wonder that a volume of such extraordinary interest has not long ago been published; for it gives a better account of monastic life in England during the years which it covers, than, perhaps, any other record; and that, too, at a period when English history requires much elucidation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.