1. Letter from Pope Gregory IX to the abbot-elect and convent of St Edmunds forbidding the establishment of any oratory within a mile of Bury St Edmunds, 21 December 1233 [CUL MS Add. 850, fol. 207r]

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Preface ix
5. Editorial method xi
6. List of abbreviations xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I: The friars in the banleuca of St Edmund, 1233–63
9. 1. Letter from Pope Gregory IX to the abbot-elect and convent of St Edmunds forbidding the establishment of any oratory within a mile of Bury St Edmunds, 21 December 1233 [CUL MS Add. 850, fol. 207r] 47
10. 2. Letter from Pope Gregory IX to the abbot and convent of St Edmunds forbidding the building of any chapel or convent within the banleuca of Bury St Edmunds, 16 April 1238 [CUL MS Ee. Iii. 60, fol. 21r] 48
11. 3. Narrative of the process against the Friars Minor, how they were expelled from the town of St Edmund [BL MS Harley 638, fols 29r–30r] 49
12. 4. Papal licence of Pope Alexander IV for the friars to establish an oratory and cemetery within the banleuca of Bury St Edmunds, 17 February 1256/7 [BL MS Harley 645, fol. 209r] 59
13. 5. Letter from Pope Alexander IV to the minister provincial and friars of England, 1 November 1257 [Wadding (ed.), Annales Minorum (1637), vol. 4, pp. 64–5] 61
14. 6. Letter from Pope Alexander IV to the minister provincial and friars of England, 9 November 1257 [LPL MS Papal Documents 62] 62
15. 7. Letters patent of Henry III for the Friars Minor in Bury St Edmunds, 22 April 1258 [TNA MS C 66/72, m. 10] 64
16. 8. Petition from the minister provincial and friars to Henry III, 1258/9 [Prynne (ed.), Third Tome of an Exact Chronological Vindication (1668), pp. 113–14] 65
17. 9. Letters patent of Henry III for the Friars Minor in Bury St Edmunds, 23 February 1259/60 [TNA MS C 66/73, m. 13] 69
18. 10. Letter of Henry III to the alderman and bailiffs of Bury St Edmunds, 23 February 1259/60 [BL Harley MS 638, fol. 35r] 70
19. 11. The process of the executors in the matter of the expulsion of the Friars Minor [BL Harley MS 638, fols 33r–34v] 71
20. 12. Letter of Pope Urban IV to the minister provincial and friars in England revoking previous papal concessions to them in Bury St Edmunds, 28 May 1263 [Guiraud (ed.), Régistres (1901), vol. 1, pp. 82–3, no. 308] 83
21. 13. Letter of Pope Urban IV to the bishop of Carlisle and abbot of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, 28 May 1263 [Guiraud (ed.), Régistres (1901), vol. 1, pp. 83–4, no. 309] 88
22. 14. Letter of Pope Urban IV to the bishop of Carlisle and abbot of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, 1 June 1263 [BL MS Harley 638, fols 143v–144v] 91
23. Part II: The friars at Babwell, 1265–1538
24. 15. The suffering of the judges [BL MS Add. 31826, fols 54r–v] 99
25. 16. Letter from Archbishop John Peckham to Robert Malet asking for protection for the friars of Babwell, 22 November 1289 [Martin (ed.), Registrum epistolarum (1885), vol. 3, pp. 968–9 (no. 702)] 104
26. 17. Petition of the friars of Babwell to Edward I asking for the hall of pleas to be removed from Babwell, 1302 [TNA SC 8/1/21] 106
27. 18. Mandate to the sheriff of Suffolk to enquire into the removal of pleas from Cattishall to Henhowe, 4 April 1305 [TNA C 143/52, m. 13] 107
28. 19. ‘The depredation and burning of the abbey of St Edmund’ [BL MS Cotton Claudius A xii, fols 116r–121r, 124r–126v] 108
29. 20. Letters of protection of Edward III for the warden and friars of Babwell, 20 February 1327/8 [TNA C 66/169 Part 1, m. 29] 132
30. 21. Letters of protection of Edward III for the warden and friars of Babwell, 26 April 1328 [TNA C 66/169 Part 1, m. 11] 133
31. 22. Grant of a chantry in St Botolph’s Church, Cambridge, by Brother Thomas of Cambridge, friar of Babwell, 7 November 1330 [Corpus Christi College Archives GBR/0268/CCCC09/11/1(1)] 133
32. 23. Letters patent of Edward III granting the former site of the Franciscan friary in Bury St Edmunds to the abbot and convent of St Edmunds, 7 October 1360 [BL Harley MS 638, fol. 35v] 137
33. 24. Books in the library at Babwell listed by Henry of Kirkstead in his Catalogus scriptorum ecclesiae [CUL MS Add. 3470] 139
34. 25. Decree of Henry Beaufort, bishop of Winchester, restricting the hearing of confessions by the warden and friars of Babwell, 12 November 1420 [BL MS Add. 14848, fols 8r–v] 140
35. 26. Faculties for hearing confessions granted by Abbot William Curteys to friars of Babwell, 9 March 1438 [BL MS Add. 14848, fol. 8v] 142
36. 27. Will of Robert Windell, bishop of Emly, 30 June 1441 [Tymms (ed.), Wills and Inventories (1850), p. 11] 143
37. 28. Petition of the warden and friars of Babwell to Henry VI, 1447/8 [TNA MS SC 8/248/12371] 144
38. 29. Grant of land in Fornham All Saints by Richard, duke of York, to Babwell Friary, 29 February 1447/8 [TNA MS C 66/464 Part 2, m. 18] 145
39. 30. Inspeximus and confirmation of letters patent to the warden and friars of Babwell, 18 March 1449/50 [TNA MS C 66/468 Part 1, m. 7] 146
40. 31. Letter from Bartholomew, warden of Babwell Friary, accompanying an indulgence of Pope Sixtus IV for the jubilee year, 14 April 1475 [BL MS Add. 6416/5] 150
41. Appendix: Friars who spent time in Bury St Edmunds 153
42. Bibliography 159
43. Index 168