Polychronicon, etc. — Pleshey, Essex. Collegiate church of the Holy Trinity.
| Provenance: | Pleshey, Essex. Collegiate church of the Holy Trinity. |
| Location: | Bodleian Library , Oxford |
| Shelfmark: | Bodley 316 |
| Author/Title: | Polychronicon, etc. |
| Type of evidence: | e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution |
| Notes on evidence: | 'Orate pro Thoma duce Glouc' qui me dedit huic Cantarie siue Collegie Sancte Trinitatis infra Castrum de Plecy' (fol. 2r). Visible in the inventory of 1527. |
| Date: | c. AD 1388 |
| Medieval Catalogue: | SC283.22 Further details of medieval catalogue: SC283. SECULAR INSTITUTIONS: Secular Colleges: Pleshey: Inventory of goods, 10 January 1528 |
| Ownership: | Thomas Woodstock, earl of Buckingham and duke of Gloucester (1355–1397), by whom presented to his college at Pleshey. |
| Notes: | Originally part of one volume with BL Harley 3634 fols. 137–163. This latter contains Thomas Walsingham's 'Scandalous Chronicle', inimical to the Duke of Lancaster; it was expurgated before the Duke of Gloucester took the Bodley portion to give to his college. It belongs to a group of four manuscripts produced by the same professional, probably in Norwich, using stock patterns, the others being BnF lat. 4922, CUL Ii. 2. 24, Royal 14 C.ix. See further Willoughby, Collegiate Churches, pp. 388–9, 394–5. |