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THE GREAT WHITE BOOK of BRISTOL to My Colleagues Past and Present in the Bristol Record Office the GREAT WHITE BOOK of BRISTOL BRISTOL RECORD SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS General Editor: PROFESSOR PATRICK MCGRATH, M.A. Assistant General Editor: MISS ELIZABETH RALPH, M.A., F .S.A. VOL. XXXII THE GREAT WHITE BOOK OF BRISTOL To my colleagues past and present in the Bristol Record Office THE GREAT WHITE BOOK OF BRISTOL EDITED BY ELIZABETH RALPH Printedfor the BRISTOL RECORD SOCIETY 1979 ISSN 0305-8728 c Elizabeth Ralph Printe<tby Titus Wilson .& Son .Ltd., Kendal CONTENTS PAGE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VI EDITORIAL NOTE vn LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS VIII INTRODUCTION 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TEXT 11 TEXT 17 INDEX 143 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I should like to thank all those who in various ways have contributed to the production of this volume: the staffofthe Bristol Record Office and the Bristol Reference Library who willingly met my needs, Mr. Geoffrey Langley who identified the watermark on the paper of the Great White Book and Mrs. Jean Vanes, now engaged in writing the history of Bristol in the sixteenth century who made suggestions on a number of points which have been of much value. I am most indebted to Miss Mary Williams, Bristol City Archivist, who read the whole manuscript and made helpful comments and criticisms. Miss Nora Hardwick kindly assisted me in the preparation of the index. In company with many other editors of volumes of the Bristol Record Society I must record my appreciation of the help and encouragement always willingly given by Professor Patrick McGrath. I acknowledge with thanks a grant from the Marc Pitch Fund. EDITORIAL NOTE As far as possible the transcription has been made without alteration either of spelling, punctuation or capitalisation. However, contractions have been extended, letters on the half line have been dropped to the line for ease of printing, so that vj8 becomes vjs. Contemporary marginal notes have been placed in brackets after the entries to which they refer, except those marginal notes which were added for the purpose of making the Table of Contents. Some of the documents have been calendared and not transcribed in full. Although such a course is open to criticism, it was felt to be justified since the documents follow well recognised forms, and to reproduce them verbatim would have been an unjustifiable expense. All essential details contained in the various documents have been included. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES A .P.C. Acts ofthe Privy Council. B.R.O. Bristol Record Office. B.R.S. Bristol Record Society used in the footnotes. Cat. S.P. Dom. Calendar ofState Papers Domestic Series. Cat. S.P. Scot. Calendar ofState Papers Scotland. Ricart The Maire ofBristowe is Kalendar ed. L. Toulmin­ Smith, Camden Society, 1872. INTRODUCTION THE MANUSCRIPT The Great White Book of Bristol which is in the Bristol Record Office is the third of the city's custumals. The Little Red Book was edited by Francis Bickley and published by the Corporation of Bristol in 1900.1 The Great Red Book was edited by Dr. E. W. W. Veale and published in five volumes by the Bristol Record Society, 1931-1953.2 The Great White Book is bound within boards covered with vellum which is not its original binding, but it is most likely that it was originally bound in vellum and so took its name from its size and the colour of its covers. When Francis Bickley, Keeper of Manuscripts in the British Museum, edited the Little Red Book he was asked by the Corporation to report on both the Great Red Book and the Great White Book. From the correspondence which has survived it is clear that the volume was in need of repair and some work was done by the British Museum in 1900.3 What is not clear is whether the volume was also rebound at this time. Whenever it was rebound folios 38 and 43 were assembled in the wrong order and folios 266, 267 and 268 were inserted upside down. The volume consists of 533 folios of which 357 are blank. It comprises a number of gatherings each made up offour folios of paper between two folios of parchment. The folios measure 35 cmsx24 ems. The watermark on the paper is a bird resembling a duck within a circle and is of fifteenth century date.4 There is no original foliation and it seems likely that the folios were numbered at the time when a Table of Contents was made at the end of the volume. This Table of Contents bears the name Saxcey. Both the Little Red Book and the Great Red Book have similar Tables of Contents written in the same hand as that of the Great White Book and with the name Saxcey which appears to be a signature. This is without doubt William Saxcey who was elected Town Clerk of Bristol in 15755 and held office until 1581 when he resigned.6 Throughout the first 299 folios of the volume there are a 1 Little Red Book ofBristol, ed. Francis B. Bickley (Bristol1900). 2 Great Red Book of Bristol, ed. E. W. W. Veale (B.R.S., IV, VIII, XVI, XVIII, 1931-53). 3 B.R.O. 01204. 4 A similar watermark is found on a document in Naples, dated 1494, and is a variant of a group of marks found on Italian documents between 1482 and 1497. C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes, No. 12204 Revised edition, 1968. 5 B.R.O. 04272 Ordinances of the Common Council f. 35v. 6 Ibid. f. 42v. 2 The Great White number of marginal notes, all written in the same hand. They are only the headings used in the Table of Contents, and so these particular marginal notes have not been included in the transcription of the text. The documents recorded in the Great White Book are written in Latin and English. Except for the entries on the last folio they range in date from 1491 to 1598, although some of the late sixteenth century documents were not enrolled until 1608 which demonstrates that the volume was being used until the early years ofthe.seventeenth century. As will be seen from an examination of the contents, the entries contained in the Great White Book are of a very miscellaneous nature. Some do not appear to have any connection with Bristol and may therefore have been enrolled as examples of precedents. There is no regular sequence or chronological order preserved in the entries but an attempt has been made to group all documents of the same nature together. The book was begun to record the dispute which lasted from 1491- 1496 between the Abbot of St. Augustine's Abbey and the Mayor and Commonalty of Bristol. This occupies the first 37 folios of the volume. The contents of the Great White Book may be divided into the following groups: law suits, enrolment of charters and letters patent and miscellaneous matters including a number ofletters from the Privy Council concerned with the Court of Admiralty, the Council of the Marches in Wales, appointment of various officials, payment and collection of customs and dues and the enrolment of deeds. It is not within the scope of this edition to provide a detailed commentary on the great variety of documents enrolled in the Great White Book, but rather to make the text available to students. Nevertheless, certain points may be noted. DISPUTE BETWEEN ST. AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY AND THE MAYOR AND COMMONALTY OF BRISTOL. This was a long and protracted dispute between the Abbot and the town officials which lasted from 1491 to 1496 and was only settled, if indeed it can be called a settlement, by the efforts of Archbishop Morton and the Lord Chief Justice. The Abbey's claim was that it had manorial jurisdiction including view of frankpledge in that part of the manor of Billeswick in which the abbey stood. This included St. Augustine's Green and its precincts as well as St. Mark's or the Gaunts Hospital and its precincts. 7 It further claimed that the liberties and franchises which it enjoyed had been confirmed by papal bulls8 and that it had always had the right to hold its own courts and keep all dues and fines. The Mayor and Commonalty maintained that the area under dispute had always been within the town and within the county of Bristol. Furthermore they argued, that the mayor, sheriff, coroner and bailiffs had always exercised their offices in St. Augustine's Green 7 Two Compotus Rolls of St. Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, ed. Gwen Beachcroft and Arthur Sabin (B.R.S., IX, 1938), p. 291. Book ofBristol 3 and its precincts, and that the inhabitants of the Green had always been assessed with the inhabitants of Bristol. The case was further complicated by a number of other issues which were raised. The Mayor and Commonalty accused the Abbot of increasing the number of his mills from two to four and encouraging the townspeople to grind their corn in the abbey mills, to the detriment of the town mills. The abbot was further accused of taking wheat, barley and other grains from which some malt was made, but the greater part of the grain was exported to Ireland and other places, contrary to the law. The abbey's right of sanctuary was also in dispute and when the Mayor and his officers at the King's command came to search out vagabonds who had taken sanctuary in the abbey, the abbot's servants attacked them and this ended in a riot. The case was only settled through the mediation of Cardinal Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Lord Chief Justice who ordered that a lawday should be held by the town officials who would keep the records and meet the costs, but the profits were to be divided between the town and the abbey.
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