Evan T. Jones (Ed.), Bristol Annal: Bristol Archives 09594/1
Bristol Archives 09594/1 Bristol Annal University of Bristol, 30 Sept 2019 Evan T. Jones (ed.), ‘Bristol Annal: Bristol Archives 09594/1’ (version 30 Sept 2019) The following is a draft transcription of a manuscript held by Bristol Archives.1 The document was deposited by a Mr. A. M. McPherson on 21 March 1932.2 A note on the outer wrapper, which predates the document’s deposition, indicates that it was ‘rescued from the fire at Mr Strong's shop’.3 Few scholars have consulted 09594/1, because at some point during the late twentieth century, Bristol Record Office decided that it was ‘unfit for production’.4 This was because water damage had destroyed parts of the manuscript and rendered other parts fragile. Supervised access to the document was first granted to Evan Jones in 2009, when he photographed part of it. He later realised that it contained significant information not found in the published chronicles of Bristol. In March 2019, Jones photographed the whole manuscript with a view to making its contents more widely available.5 Sections of the main ‘annal’ were then transcribed by two of his students: Benedict Morter (1474-1579) and Frankie Townsend (1603-1646).6 Jones checked / corrected their transcriptions and annotations, before transcribing the rest of the document and adding additional notes. His analysis has included a comparison between the 09594/1 and the two best-known Bristol chronicles, both of which have been available in print for over a century. These are typically known as ‘Ricart’s chronicle’ and ‘Adams’ chronicle’. 7 Jones has also compared 09594/1 to a little-known Bristol annal referred to below as ‘Morgan’s chronicle’.8 In some cases the notes also contain additional information, for other sources, about the matters discussed in the annal.
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