| Description | 184 pp., and there is also foliation. Probably mostly written about 1220 to 1240. It contains copies of cathedral statutes, Bishop Osmund's foundation charter of the cathedral, royal and episcopal charters and papal bulls concerning the rights and liberties of the church of Salisbury and the prebends, compositions of disputes, surveys of the property and inventories of the ornaments, etc., of some of the churches in the dean's peculiar, documents concerning the transfer of the cathedral from Old Sarum and the building of the new one, an inventory of the ornaments in the cathedral, and other documents. Edited by W. H. Rich Jones in the Rolls series of Chronicles and Memorials, 1883-4. TRANSFERRED TO THE CHAPTER ARCHIVE, SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, May 2014. Digital version available. |