Newport, 1597-1601 Leyton Grange Manor, 1599. Prested-Hall in Feering, White Notley, and many 39,073 39,074 39,075-77 other Manors & Advowsons, 1372. 33,137 Bugden, al. Buckden Prebend (Linc. Dioc.), 1597 39,111 Buckden, 1365-1635 33,222-33,226 Heitmundegrave (in Bury.), temp. Hen. III-1535 33,404-36 Higney in Ramsey, 1586-1615 Holme, 1632 39,170-185 33,437 33,438 33,439, 33,440, 39,239 Huntingdon, 1190-1596 33,441-33,522, 39,240-39,258 Huntingdon (Austin Canons), temp. Edw. I, 1293 33,593-94 Hinchinbroke Nunnery, or Priory of St. James, outside Huntingdon, 1186-1547 Hurst or Horst [? Old Hurst], 1570 Neufeld in Ramsey, temp. Hen. III 33,595-33,628 39,161 33,629 Medehaghes near Hinchinbroke, 1224-1227 33,630-31 33,632 39,259 . 33,633-33,637 39,260 39,261 33,638, 39,262 33,639 33,640-33,698, 39,263-39,303 33,995-34,013, 39,304 34,014, 34,016 34,015, 34,017, 34,018 34,019-39,306 34,028, 34,029, 39,307-39,311 34,030-34,039 34,040-34,048, 39,312-39,321 34,089-34,090, 39,322-39,329 34,091-34,102, 39,330-39,332 34,103 39,333-334 34,104-34,105 34,106-34,143, 39,335-39,361 Ubbemare, or Uggmere, 1250-8, 1572 34,144-34,173 39,362, 39,363 The great collection of Rolls relating to Ramsey Abbey are thus arranged in the British Museum, MS. Depart Law proceedings at the Assizes, 1342, and other suits, temp. Henry VII. 39,695-697 Royal pardon to Abbot and Convent, 1410? 39,698 Rentals of the "Capella B.V. Mariæ," 1512, 1534 39,713-714 The fabric of the once great, palatial, splendid Abbey of Ramsey, the pride of the Fens, has now perished; her 1899 16 halls have crumbled into dust; her inmates have taken refuge in the tomb, whence they will emerge to render their last account. But its work and their work lives on in endless glory, written on the pages of English history. Who will help to decipher them, and to bring back, even in a slight degree, the lost position of the house? Scattered here and there, as we have seen, lie the literary relics of its bygone days of prosperity, and with them lie entombed many a record of local historical importance, many a paragraph of imperial value for to-day. But they, too, must perish, unless someone with ability and enthusiasm can give himselfup for a time to the fascinating task of deciphering the writing, and reconstructing, as far as may be, the potential edifice of whose history and MSS. I have here given a short and incomplete survey. |