Descriptive catalogue of the original charters, royal grants, and donations Many with the seals, in fine preservation, monastic chartulary, official, manorial, court baron, court leet, and rent rolls, registers, and other documents, constituting the munim

Seals, signatures, and landholdings survive. Here, the evidence speaks first. Compiled by antiquary Thomas Thorpe, this archival manuscript catalogue opens the strongroom of Battle Abbey: a primary source document collection of original charters, royal grants with seals, monastic charter and cartulary material, registers, rent rolls, and manorial court roll transcripts. Founded to memorialise Hastings, the abbey became a hub of title, tenure, and memory; these battle abbey muniments trace how power moved across Norman conquest era England, from monastery precinct to village field. Thorpe extends the record beyond the cloister into families whose papers shaped the south east: the Brownes, later Viscounts Montague; the Sidneys, Earls of Leicester; and the Webster evidences. For english genealogy research, the entries point to marriages, inheritances, and local offices; for domesday book scholarship and english monastic history, they preserve documentary continuities and ruptures; for a medieval property law reference, they map rights, rents, courts, and obligations across Sussex Kent Essex manors and their shifting boundaries. Genealogists, local historians, and collectors of classic reference works will value Thorpe's crisp descriptions and the sense of handling the very instruments that underwrote estates, disputes, and devotion in England's southern shires. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Dip in for the drama of real paperwork, or keep it on the shelf as a sober, handsome witness to England's written past.