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Description: | The Cartulary Of Reading Abbey was discovered by a bricklayer in 1792, in a cavity in a wall at a house in Shinfield, just outside Reading. It was probably hidden for safekeeping during the Reformation, when a secretly Catholic family lived there.
The first leaf of the manuscript contains a list of contents, which allows someone to find particular documents quickly and easily: the heading states: Here begins a summary of the charters which are in Reading church. The first entry is 'a charter of King Henry, our founder, concerning the foundation and liberties of Reading church'. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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