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Primary Sources – in the British Library Cotton Claudius, A. VIII, f.195 (charges for the tomb of Humphrey Duke of Gloucester 1447).Cotton Claudius, D. I. f.1 (letters and acts of John of Wheathampstead and John of Amundesham,

rental of S Julian’s hospital 22 Hen, VI).Cotton Claudius, D. XIII (Charters of Binham Priory).Cotton Claudius, E IV (Gesta Abbatum and many other items)Cotton Cleopatra, E. IV ff.42/3, f.213 (Report to Cromwell on a visitation of abbot Borman, 1538)Cotton Julius, D III (Register of Deeds of abbey property, Robert of Dunstable verses)Cotton Nero, C VI (f.147r Granarium of John of Wheathampstead, first part).Cotton Nero, D I (Vitae Abbatum, Gifts 145, Regist. Chartar 148, Privilegia 157, Obits 1216-52

165, re Pré S.Julian, Sopwell 173, Cartae 196-196b)Cotton Nero, D V (Chronica Majora to 1255)Cotton Nero, D VII (Book of Benefactors).Cotton Otho, D III (Cartulary of St Albans Abbey, c.1370, damaged)Cotton Tiberius, D V (Part of John of Wheathampstead’s ‘Granarium’) Burnt, but largely restored.Cotton Tiberius, E I (Life of Christina of Markyate).Cotton Tiberius, E VI (Register of St Albans).Cotton Titus, B. I, 80 (Benefactores) plate given to Abbey by Wolsey.Cotton Titus, D XX(extracts from John of Wheathampstead’s ‘Granarium’)Cotton Titus, C. VIII (Charters, grants, etc. to Wymondham Priory)Cotton, Faustina, B. IV (Martyrdoms of Alban and Amphibalus 1170) William the monk.Cotton, Faustina, B. IX 75-144 (Ryshanger’s chronicle, 1259-1366).Cotton, Vitellius, B. IV, 95 (to Wolsey re death of abbot and licence for election of successor).Cotton xi. 6, 8. (Gaufr[idus de Gorham], (Witness with the prior to the foundation of Markyate

Priory, 1145).Lansdowne, 260 (Some interesting papers concerning the Abbey of St Albans).Lansdowne, 375 (Register of the Almoner, ca. 1370-1416, also lands, tithes, etc..).Lansdowne, 763 f.97b (Account of musical notes, ?Walsingham, precentor).Lansdowne, 825 f.62 (Verses re visit of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough).Lansdowne, 863 (Foundation charters of the cells).Harl. 28, (Indenture, x4, concerning solemn anniversary and prayers for the King, the Royal

Family and the Realm)Harl. 43. A. 24 (Papal confirmation of covenant with see of Lincoln, super processionibus, 1161).

26 (Papal grant de non appelando a justicio abbatis nisi ad Romanam Curiam, 1188).27 (Papal confirmation of covenant for non-subjection to see of Lincoln, 1188).28 (Papal inhibition concerning subvention for Holy Land, 1193).49 (Assault on Fr. Joh. de Stopelea, 1397).

16. (Monuments in the church, 1427).Harl. 139, 97. (Pedigree of John Bostock) ?Cotton Otho D IV?.Harl. 247, (?first part of Harl. 6217).Harl. 602 (John Moote’s (Prior’s) memoranda, 1352). Copy in Jesus Coll, Oxford.

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Harl. 604 (Sir Richard Riche to Cromwell, supression of Binham Abbey)Harl. 688 (Chronicon of John Wallingford, creation to 1258. Copy of Julius D VII, 61).Harl. 3775, (f.8 Fraternity names, f.10 an ‘infamous petition’ to H D of G, f.12 Abbot of

Westminster usurps precedency in Parliament, f.14 of the Dedication of the church f.16 monuments as in 1429, etc.,).

Harl. 6217, (various incidents, inc. burning of a brewhouse, &c).Harl. 6853, 86. (Extracts from the register of the monastery of St Albans).Royal, 1, A, x (A St Albans Abbey breviary)Royal, 14, C, VII (M.Paris Historia Anglorum 1070-1259, and 13-century St Albans Calendar).Lat. 13 E. ix, f.116 (Part of an inventory of relics, c.1400).Additional, 11880 (De Miraculis S Alban, 9-C)Additional, 11880, (De Miraculis S. Alban), C9 [also MS Aurum 34, C9]Additional, 19590. (Concerning Aston church and the parish of Shephall, 1151-4).*Additional, 19279. (Covenant of St Mary de Pré to submit to jurisdiction, c.1220).Additional, 62777 (Matthew Paris. Cult of St Alban, 1360-70).Additional, 27118. (A quarry held in Totternhoe, Beds., 1391).Additional, 27951 (Itinerary of an Irish clergyman includes St Albans. 1761-2).Additional, 28802 (Itinerary, includes St Albans, 1821)Additional, 34360, ff.65v-67 (Lydgate’s appeal to the Duke of Gloucester for money).Additional, 39848, f.28. (Contemporary account of first Battle of St Albans, 1455, Paston letters).Additional, 40625, f. 158 b. (Court book of Park; Bequest to an anchorite at St Albans Abbey, ?

1410).Additional, 52359 (Mentions St Christina)*Additional, 6223, f.10v (History of Cotton Nero D VII).Additional Charters, 7370. (Royal mandate for relief, from an aid, 1303).Additional Charters, 19958-63 (St Albans Abbey and St Mary de Pre, 1190-1450)Arundel, 11. (Part of John of Wheathampstead’s ‘Granarium’).Arundel, 34. (Register of lands &c, Wheathampstead and Ramryge).Arundel, 391. (Part of John of Wheathampstead’s ‘Granarium’).Cole 5828 (f.153, analysis of the monastery, f.188, a list of the Cellarers of the Abbey).Cole 5836 (f.32 ff. Describes St Alban’s shrine, and tells of Duke Humphrey).Cole 5843 (f.153, Historia Aurea) latter part a ‘leiger book of the Abbey of St Albans’.Stowe 1055 (Robert Shrimpton’s a/c of ceremonial at St Albans Abbey before the Dissolution).Augmentation-Office in Hert. Rot. (Account of the possessions of the late monastery, 1544)Cott. xvii. 21. (Lands late held by St Albans Abbey in St Albans, 1563).Ch. Br. B. iv. 6. (Brief for repairs to the Abbey church, 1764).

The National ArchivesC 1/5/179 Thomas Bromsale, late chaplain of the Fraternity of the Charnell in St Albans v.

Thomas Bardale, Richard Fuller and John Adam, friars of the same Fraternity.: Petitioner’s heritage in St Albans pledged till the recovery of certain charters and muniments. 1386-1486.

C 1/216/10 Thomas Ramryge and Gaol keeper re occupation of a room in the Gate House. 1490-1529

C 47/12/6/5 To leprous nuns of St Mary de Pré, 1204C 47/12/8/41 To Abbot and Convent of St Albans, at Woodstock, 17 May 1248C 47/37/3/5-11 Contemporary accounts of the Battle of St Albans, 1455C 54/526 m.3 grant of church and buildings to Richard Borman (gate house had been granted to

the gaol.) 1556C 66/675 m.32 installation of Richard Borman. 1538


C 66/676 m.23 installation of Richard Borman. 1538C 84/1/10 to C 84/51/11 Various charters, St Albans Monastery, 1235 to 1476.C 85/212 St Albans Abbey 1252-1516C 89/4/17 Act for Richard Borman clerk to erect a school in St Albans, Act 2 & 3 Ed VI no.53C 143/128/7 St Mary de Pré to appropriate Earls Barton 1318C 143/312/9 Abbey to grant advowson of chapel of St Julian to the lepers there 1354C 143/426/3 Abbey to appropriate the chapel of St Julian 1389C 270/7 Reply of the Abbot of St Albans and Prior of Binham to the King’s requests for corrodies.

1333C 270/12 Reply of the priors of Tynemouth and Wymondham to the King’s requests for corrodies.

1333E 6/256 f.143r payments of 100 marks to Cromwell, 1539.E 33/26/2 St Albans: with skippet, not engraved. 1504E 33/4/1 St Albans of the third part. 1504E 36/120 ff.65r-68r charges against William Ashwell (monk), 1535.E 36/143 ff.1r-22r Catton informs against townspeople who slandered the King. Cromwell gets

copy of Abbey’s foundation charter. 1533.E 40/1183 Grant by Abbey to nuns of St Mary de Pré 1188-95E 40/5461 Release of corrody in Abbots Langley. Westminster 14 Feb. 1365 (See muniment room,

An Indenture between the King and Thomas, Abbot of St Albans, about a corrody. 1364.)E 40/11069 Charter of St Mary de PréE 40/11538 Fragments of the Foundation Charter of St Mary de PréE 40/14572 St Mary de Pré, enrolled copies of 6 charters (f. 1194), mostly of the Gorham family.E 40/15365 Fragments of the Foundation Charter of St Mary de PréE 41/214 Abbey property 5 Sep 1532E 41/215 Abbey property 1 Nov 1532E 41/327 Dame Margaret Vernon, Prioress of St Mary de Pré, to Wm Jakeman, Manor of Wing.

1517E 41/338 Confirmation of charters of St Albans Abbey, 1292E 41/518 Prioress of St Mary de Pré, Isabel Benyngton, pardon for all offences. 25 Oct 1450.E 42/549 Confirmation of a grant of a yearly Fair to St Mary de Pré, 1377E 101/399/14 List of tradesmen in St Albans and Hertford c.1350E 117/11/32 County: Hertford: Monastery of St AlbansE 135/5 m.8 installation of Richard Borman. 1538E 314/20/5 Costs for repairs to the king’s stables at St Albans, 1549SC 6/867/21 Accounts of St Mary de Pré and job description of Keeper. 1327SC 6/867/22 Accounts of St Mary de Pré 1328SC 6/HENVII/274 Account of the Prioress of St Mary de Pré, 2-4 Hen VII, 1486-1488SC 6/HENVII/275 Account of the Prioress of St Mary de Pré, 6-9 Hen VII, 1491-1494SC 6/HENVII/1057 Household accounts, Hertford / St Albans Abbey (mutilated) 1485-1509SC 6/HENVIII/1631 Monastic possessions of St Albans Abbey, 37-38 Hen VIII, 1546SC 7/2/9 'Brief' for St Mary de Pré 1256SC 7/2/20 'Brief' for St Mary de Pré 1256SC 7/3/51 'Brief' for St Mary de Pré 1256SC 7/12/6 Appointment of Thomas de la Mare as Abbot, 1349SC 7/15/30 Order to Woburn and Dunstable to cease exactions from St Mary de Pré 1232SC 7/19/14 Order to Rochester to restore tithes etc. to poor leprous women of St Mary de Pré 1204SC 7/30/10 Appointment of John de Berkamsted as Abbot, 1291SC 7/35/20 Dunstable Priory ordered to restore rents of St Mary de Pré.SC 7/64/50 'Brief' for St Mary de Pré 1256


SC 8/20/955 Abbot re charters destroyed in Peasants Revolt 1319SC 8/142/4283 Foundation of St Mary de Pré.SC 8/142/7075 Petition from the lepers of St Julians.SC 11/1027 Part valuation of Abbey lands temp Robert Catton 1509-47SC 12/8/38 St Mary de Pré Priory rent roll 1319SC 12/8/39 Survey of Abbey, (Surveye of the scite of the Abbey of S. Alban’s, 2 Edw. VI. Feb. 1),

1548SP 1/76 f.15r Cromwell entertains Catton at his home in Norwich.SP 1/86 ff 28r-29r Catton grants estates to ‘friends’.SP 1/91 f.93r, 105r Thomas King (Chaplain of St Andrews) reported to Cromwell.SP 1/98 ff.47r-48r elderly monks may remain at St Albans.SP 1/98 f.98r John ap Rice suspicious of monks at St Albans, 1535. SP 1/101 f.138r Catton writes to Cromwell 1536SP 1/105 f.265r Abbot Catton released Ashwell for examination.SP 6/9 f.1 Articles objected by Abp. Cranmer against Thomas King, vicar of St Andrews in St

Albans, for denying the validity of the king’s marriage to Anne Boleyn. 25 Apl 1535SP 34/21/102 John Gape to Earl of Dartmouth, on annexation of Much Munden, and ‘the exposing

of the body of the Duke of Gloucester’, 30 July 1713STAC 2/17/208 Rowlatt & Maynard v. Raynshaw re pew in St Albans and other matters, 1509-

1547STAC 2/32/120 Raynshaw v. Rowlatt re assault in St Andrew’s chapel, etc. 1509-1547STAC 3/10/29 Rowlatt & Maynard v. Raynshaw re pew in St Albans and other matters, 1547-

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Lambeth PalaceMS 585, 67. (Register, 1396 to 1400).MS 585, 387. (Extracts from register, Fr. Will. Wyntershull, 1382).MS 585, 437. (Catalogue of abbots, to 1510).MS 589, 30. (Rights of Parliamentary Abbots, proper order, etc.).MS 590, 37. (Extracts from register of T. Ramryge).MS 643, 7. (Bull of Elex. IV exempting St Albans and cells, which are enumerated).

Cambridge University.Cambridge University Library, Dd 6, 7 (Cult of St Alban).Cambridge University Library, Dd x, 22 (secunda pars Historiae Aurae, 1342).Cambridge University Library, Ee III, 44, (Notes from two registers, temp. Eliz.).Cambridge University Library, Ee IV, 20, (1382 Cartulary by Wyntershulle, and the St Albans

Formulary).Corpus Christi College, MS. 7, (Chronicle and Register of Benefactors).Corpus Christi College, MS. 16, (M. Paris, 13-C).Corpus Christi College, MS. 26, (M. Paris, 13-C. 1st part of MS 16).Gonville and Caius College, MS 230 (c.1420) Cult of St Alban.St John’s College, 137. Nova officia ad usum S. Albani. (C-xv. [de infirmitorio]).

Bodleian, OxfordMS Bodley, v. 44, Jur. Lib. 20, cap. 72 (Historia Aurea Johannis Anglici, [sive Tynemutensis])MS Bodley, 565 (c.1430) Cult of St Alban.MS Bodley, 585 (ff 18v-47r) Part of John of Wheathampstead’s Granarium.MS Laud Misc. 706 (c.1420) Cult of St Alban. Verses by Wheathampstead, windows of Cloisters and Library,

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MS Rawlinson B 189 (c.1420) Cult of St Alban.MS Ashmole 784 Note on Mandeville inscription and heraldryMS Ashmole 1796 14-C astronomical clock of Abbot WallingfordMS Ashmole Rolls 45 Abbots in procession, 1512.MS Bodley TOP. GEN. e 61 pp.41-59. Iconography of the Abbey of St Albans (1717).

St Gothard, Hildesheim, Albani Psalter c.1120.

Trinity College, OxfordMS 38. (Lives of SS Alban and Amphibalus, John Lydgate).

Jesus College, OxfordMS 77. (Various items).

Magdalen CollegeCopy of Claudius E4, f.34

OthersJohn de Amundesham, Annales Monasterii S Albani 1421-1440, Chronica Monasterii S Albani, ed.

H.T. Riley, (Rolls Series: vol I, 1870; vol II, 1891).Annales Prioratus de Dunstaplia, Rolls series, (HMSO, 1858).Autun MS 34 (De Miraculis S Alban, 9-C)Bede, A History of the English Church and People. Trans. Leo Sherley-Price. (Harmondsworth,

1955).Boso, Vita Adriani, Le Liber Pontificalis, ed. L. Duchesne, Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises

d’Athènes et de Rome, 2nd ser. 3, 2nd edn, 3 vols (Paris, 1955–7), ii, 388–97Bib. Nat. Paris MS 11748, Passio Albani, (anon., C7).Bib. Nat. Paris, MS Latin 5411, f.253 r. (picture of pope Adrian IV).Coll. of Arms Arundel 3. Gesta Joh. Whethamstede. C-xv.Constantis, Life of St Germanus; Monumenta Germania Historica Scriptores Rerum

Merovingicarum, VII, (1919), 225-83.Coram Regae, Trin. 5 Ric. II, m.33 and 33 dorso, (Predictus Johannes Eccleshale fuit primus surrector in

villa de Sancto Albano…) 1381.Exch. Q.R. Anc. Misc. 83/4 (Surveye of the scite of the Abbey of S. Alban’s 2 Edw. VI. Feb. 1,

1548).Excheq. MS. 72/16, (Henry VIII’s use of some conventual buildings as stables).Fortunatus, ‘Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers [c.600], in Monumenta Germaniae Historica,

Auctores Antiquissimi, iv., ed. F. Leo and B. Kreusch, I (1881), 185. Gray’s Inn MS 3 (De Miraculis S Alban, 12-C)Herald’s Office, Norfolk Press, 3. (Chronicon of Abbot Wheathampstead).Monacho Quondam S Albani, Chronicon Angliae ed. E.M. Thompson, (Rolls Series, 1874).Mount Stuart, Marquess of Bute. Vita S. Albani, etc: C-xiv-xv. [de studio domini abbatis].Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, ed. H.R. Luard, 7 vols. (Rolls Series, 1872-84).

-Historia Major, ed. W. Wats, (London, 1684). -Historia Anglicana, ed. H.T. Riley, (Rolls Series, 1863-4).-The St Albans Chronicle 1406-20, ed, V.H. Galbraith, (Oxford, 1937).-Ypodigma Neustriae, ed. H.T. Riley, (Rolls Series, 1876).


-Mattaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Historia Anglorum, sive, ut vulgo dicitur, -Historia Minor. Item, ejusdem Abbreviato chronicorum Angliae, ed. F. Madden. 3 vols. (London, 1866-1869).

-Vitae duorum Offarum sive Offanorum Merciorum regum coenobii Sancti Albani fundatorum, ed. William Wats (London, 1683)

-Vie de Seint Auban, MS 177, Trinity College, Dublin.Henry Morgan Library, New York, M43, M759, M962, 11-12C books from St Albans, (see

Muniment room, 1994).William Rishanger, Chronica et Annales 1259-1307. (Rolls Series, 1865).Johannis de Trokelowe et Henrici de Blaneforde, Chronica et Annales, 1259-1296, 1307-1324,

1392-1406, ed. H.T. Riley, (Rolls Series, 1866).Turin MS D.V.3., Passio Albani (Early C6)Thomas Walsingham, Chronicon Angliae ab anno Domini 1328 usque ad annum 1388, Actore

Monacho quidam Sancti Albani, ed. E.M. Thompson, (Rolls Series, 1874).-Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani A Thoma Walsingham, ed. H.T. Riley, (3

vols, Rolls Series, 1867-9; vol 1, 793-1290; vol 2, 1290-1349; vol 3, 1349-1411).

-Historia Anglicana, ed. H.T. Riley, 2 vols, (Rolls Series, 1863-4)-The St Albans Chronicle 1406-20, ed., V.H. Galbraith, (Oxford, 1937).-The St Albans Chronicle. The Chronica Majora of Thomas Walsingham Vol I, 1376-1394, Oxford Medieval Texts, 2003.-Ypodigma Neustriae, ed. H.T. Riley, RS 28, (London, 1876).

Rogeri de Wendover, Liber qui dictiur Flores Historiarum ab anno Domini MCLIV annoque Henrici Anglorum regis Secundi primo, ed. H.G. Hewlett, 3 vols. (Rolls Series, 1886-1889) and trans. J.A.Giles, (Bohn, 1849).

John of Wheathampstead (vol. 1) and William of Wallingford (vol. 2) Chronica Monasterii S Albani, ed. H.T. Riley, (Rolls Series, 1871-2).

John Wethamstede, Will. Albon, etc. Registra quorundam Abbatum Monasterii S. Albani, qui saeculo XV floruere, 2 vols. (Rolls Series, 1872-1873).

Worcester Cathedral Chapter Library, MS F 10 (c.1440) Cult of St Alban.Charter in Herts Archives, (Gorhambury VIII. B. 60), Henry II, confirming rights of Monastery, 1155-62.Charters and other MSS in the Muniment room, St Albans Cathedral:

A Grant to the Abbot and Convent of St Albans of the right to free warren in all their demesne lands in England. 1248. (Copy in B.L. Harl. 58. I. 7.)

A Licence to Richard de Tyneswyke and Alice his wife to alienate a messuage and land in Rykemersworth, Caysho and Little Bisseye. 1312.

A Licence to Walter Tubbe and others to give land to the Abbot in part satisfaction of 100 librates. 1312.

A Licence to Adam of Newenham, Chaplain, to give the manor of Caldecote to the Abbot in part satisfaction of 100 librates. 1321.

A Pardon to the Abbot and Convent for having demised various lands at full value. 1347.A Licence to William le Parsone and others that they may give houses and land to the

Abbot. 1349.An Indenture between the King and Thomas, Abbot of St Albans, about a corrody. 1364.An Agreement between the Abbot of St Albans and Richard Horwode, Vicar of Sandridge,

about the small tithes and other payments. 1405.The Deed of a Tenement in St Albans. 1508.A Grant to John Jenyns of the Manor of Combe-Newell. 1540.A Permit to John Jennings to alienate the Manor of Sandridge. 1606.


BooksC. H. Ashdown, St Albans Historical and Picturesque, (London, 1893). G. Baskerville, English Monks and the Suppression of the Monasteries, (Cape, 1937, reprint 1965).B. Bolton and A. Duggan, ed., Adrian IV, the English Pope (1154-1159), (Ashgate, 2002).Bonizo of Sutri, Liber de vita Christiana, iv. 98, ed. E. Perels, (Hildesheim, 1998)J.S. Brewer, ed., Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII, i/1. 20, 308.

(22 vols. in 35, London, 1862-1932). Thomas Ramryge celebrated Christmas with Henry VII, baptized his children and, eventually, conducted the king’s own obsequies.

W. Brigg, Parish Registers of St Albans Abbey 1558-1689, (Harpenden, 1897).-The Herts Genealogist and Antiquary, 3 vols, (1895).-A Calendar of Wills and Administrations: Archdeaconry of St Albans, 1415-1470,

(Harpenden, 1895).British Library, The Benedictines in Britain, (London, 1980).J.C. and C.A. Buckler, A History of the Architecture of the Abbey Church of St Alban, with especial

reference to the Norman Structure, (London, 1847).J. Burton, Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300, (Cambridge, 1994).L. Butler and C. Given-Wilson, Medieval Monasteries of Great Britain, (London, 1979).A. Caiger-Smith, English Medieval Mural Paintings, (Oxford, 1963).B. Campbell, ed., Before the Black Death: Studies in the ‘Crisis’ of the Early Fourteenth Century,

(Manchester, 1991). J. Carter, Some Account of the Abbey Church of St Alban, (London, 1813).Carter and Gough, Observations on the Abbey Church of St Alban, (London, 1813).J. Chapple, A Short History of the Abbey Church of St Albans, (St Albans, 1882).H. Chauncy, The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, II, (1700, reprint, London, 1975) 240-336.R.M. Clay, The Medieval Hospitals of England, London 1909.J.W. Comyns Carr, The Abbey Church of St Albans, (London, 1877).E. Cownie, Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066-1155, (Royal Historical Society,

Boydell, 1998). [Chapter on St Albans]J.G. Clark, ed. The Religious Orders in pre-Reformation England, pp 3-33, (Woodbridge, 2002).R. Clutterbuck, The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, (3 vols, London, 1815-27) I,

5-125.G.H. Cook, A Portrait of St Albans Cathedral, (London, 1951).

-Medieval Chantries and Chantry Chapels, (London, 1963).

J. Corbett, Celebration: The Story of a Parish, (St Albans, 1990).- A History of St Albans (Phillimore, 1997).

G.G. Coulton, Five Centuries of Religion, (see vol.4. Cambridge, 1923-50).F.H. Crossley, The English Abbey, its life and work in the Middle Ages, (London, 1935).J.E. Cussans, History of Hertfordshire, 3 vols. (London, 1870-81).

- Inventory of furniture and Ornaments remaining in all the Parish Churches of Hertfordshire in the last year of the reign of King Edward VI, (London, 1873).

E.B. Denison (later Lord Grimthorpe), Lectures on Church-Building: with some practical remarks on bells and clocks, (London, 1856).- St Albans Cathedral and its Restoration, (St Albans, 1890).

A.G. Dickens, The English Reformation, (Batsford, 1964, 1967).J.C. Dickinson, Monastic Life in Medieval England, (London, 1961).C.R. Dodwell, O. Pächt & F. Wormald, ed., The St Albans’ Psalter, (London, 1960).E. Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England c.1400-c.1580, (Yale, 1992).W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, revised edition by J. Caley, H. Ellis and B. Bandinel, (1st

ed. 1693. London, 1817-30, reprinted 1846). Vol II.


- The St Albans Chronicle 1406-20, ed. V.H. Galbraith, (Oxford, 1937).H.F.O. Evans, Monumental Brasses of St Albans Abbey, (St Albans).E. Farrinton, trans., The Charters and Constitutions Granted to the inhabitants of the town of St.

Alban’s, (St Albans, 1813).P. Ferriday, Lord Grimthorpe, (London, 1957).G. Ferzoco & C. Muessig, ed., Medieval Monastic Education, (Leicester, 2000).S. Flood, St Albans Wills, 1471-1500, (Herts Record Society, 1993).T. Fowler (Abbey Organist), A Selection Of Psalms And Hymns Adapted For The Use Of The

Abbey Church, (St Albans, 1820). Copy in Lewis Evans Collection.J.A. Froude, Annals of an English Abbey, (1873). Originally published in parts in Subscriber’s Monthly vol.

VII, nos. 1, 2, 3.V.H. Galbraith, The Abbey of St Albans from 1300 to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Stanhope

Essay, (Oxford, 1911).-Roger Wendover and Matthew Paris, (Glasgow, 1944, reprint 1970).

R. Gardiner, A visit to St Albans Cathedral, Workshop Press, 1984.F.A. Gasquet, Henry VIII and the English Monasteries, (2 vols, London, 1893).

-Abbot Wallingford: an inquiry into the charges made against him and his monks, (London, 1912).

W.S.Gibson, History of the Monastery of Tynemouth, (2 vols., London, 1846-7).A.E. Gibbs, Historical Records of St Albans: History of the Grammar School, and Leprosy in St

Albans, (St Albans, 1888).-An Account of the High Altar Screen, (St Albans, 1890).-The Corporation Records of St Albans, (St Albans, 1890).

M. Gibbs, ed., Early Charters of the Cathedral Church of St Paul, London, (Camden 3rd ser. lviii, 1939), nos 154, 156.

J.A. Giles (trans.), Matthew Paris’ English History from 1235-1273, (3 vols., Bohn, 1852-54).A. Goldschmidt, Der Albanipsalter in Hildesheim, (Berlin, 1895).A. Gransden, Historical Writing in England, (2 vols, London, 1974-82).E. Lord Grimthorpe (as E.B. Denison), Lectures on Church-Building: with some practical remarks

on bells and clocks, (London, 1856).E. Lord Grimthorpe, St Albans Cathedral and its Restoration, (St Albans, 1890).A.R. Harden, ed., M. Paris, La Vie de Seint Auban, Anglo-Norman Text Society, (Oxford, 1968).F. Harrison, Music in Medieval Britain, (London, 1958).B. Harvey, Westminster Abbey and its Estates in the Middle Ages, (Oxford, 1977).J. Harvey, Henry Yevele, c. 1320-1400,, (London, 1944).M. Heale, The Dependent Priories of Medieval English Monasteries, (Woodbridge, 2004).M. Henig and P. Lindley, ed., Alban and St Albans: Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and

Archaeology, The British Archaeological Conference, xxiv, (Leeds, 2001).G.A. Henwood, Abbot Richard of Wallingford, a Fourteenth-century Scholar, Astronomer and

Instrument Maker, (Wallingford, 1988).R.C. Hope, Holy Wells of England, (1893), 78.R.P. Howgrave-Graham, Early Clocks and Horologes: Richard of Wallingford’s Clock, (1926),

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