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Chronologica — Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr.


Provenance: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Campbell Roll xxi.1
Author/Title: Chronologica
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
Notes on evidence:

Dates of death and translation of saints, foundations of monasteries, battles (to 1346), deaths of English kings to 1328, obits of abbots of Bury (to Richard de Draughton 1335), and miscellaneous events to the plague of 1349. The special interest in Bury is obvious. Events are calculated on the dorse from the year 1356, but the year numbers are not in the man hand.

Date: A.D. 1356