Contents

pp v-vii

List of Illustrations

pp viii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

Editorial Method

pp xi-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-44

Part I - The Friars in the Banleuca of St Edmund, 1233 – 63

pp 45-46

1 - Letter from Pope Gregory IX to the Abbot-Elect and Convent of St Edmunds Forbidding the Establishment of any Oratory Within a Mile of Bury St Edmunds, 21 December 1233 [Cul Ms Add. 850, Fol. 207R]

pp 47-48

2 - Letter from Pope Gregory IX to the Abbot and Convent of St Edmunds forBidding the Building of Any Chapel or Convent Within the Banleuca of Bury St Edmunds, 16 April 1238 [Cul Ms Ee. III. 60, Fol. 21r]

pp 48-49

3 - Narrative of the Process Against the Friars Minor, How they Were Expelled from the Town of St Edmund [Bl Ms Harley 638, Fols 29r – 30r]

pp 49-59

4 - Papal Licence of Pope Alexander IV for the Friars to Establish an Oratory and Cemetery Within the Banleuca of Bury St Edmunds, 17 February 1256/7 [Bl Ms Harley 645, Fol. 209r]

pp 59-60

5 - Letter from Pope Alexander IV to the Minister Provincial and Friars of England, 1 November 1257 [Wadding (ed.), Annales Minorum (1637), vol . 4, pp. 64 – 5]

pp 61-62

6 - Letter from Pope Alexander IV to the Minister Provincial and Friars of England, 9 November 1257 [Lpl Ms Papal Documents 62]

pp 62-64

7 - Letters Patent of Henry III for the Friars Minor in Bury St Edmunds, 22 April 1258 [Tna Ms C 66/72, M. 10]

pp 64-65

8 - Petition from the Minister Provincial and Friars to Henry III, 1258/9 [Prynne (ed.), Third Tome of an Exact Chronological Vindication (1668), pp. 113 – 14]

pp 65-69

9 - Letters Patent of Henry III for the Friars Minor in Bury St Edmunds, 23 February 1259/60 [Tna Ms C 66/73, M. 13]

pp 69-70

10 - Letter of Henry III to the Alderman and Bailiffs of Bury St Edmunds, 23 February 1259/60 [BL Harley Ms 638, Fol. 35r]

pp 70-71

11 - The Process of the Executors in the Matter of the Expulsion of the Friars Minor [Bl Harley Ms 638, Fols 33r – 34v]

pp 71-83

12 - Letter of Pope Urban IV to the Minister Provincial and Friars in England Revoking Previous Papal Concessions to them in Bury St Edmunds, 28 May 1263 [Guiraud (ed.), Régistres (1901), vol. 1, pp. 82 – 3, no. 308

pp 83-87

13 - Letter of Pope Urban IV to the Bishop of Carlisle and Abbot of St Augustine‘s, Canterbury, 28 May 1263 [Guiraud (ed.), Régistres (1901), vol. 1, pp. 83 – 4, no. 309]

pp 88-91

14 - Letter of Pope Urban IV to the Bishop of Carlisle and Abbot of St Augustine‘s, Canterbury, 1 June 1263 [Bl Ms Harley 638, Fols 143v – 144v]

pp 91-96

Part II - The Friars at Babwell, 1265 – 1538

pp 97-98

15 - The Suffering of the Judges [Bl Ms Add. 31826, Fols 54r – v]

pp 99-104

16 - Letter from Archbishop John Peckham to Robert Malet Asking for Protection for the Friars of Babwell, 22 November 1289 [Martin (ed.), Registrume Pistolarum (1885), vol. 3, pp. 96 – 9 (no. 702)]

pp 104-105

17 - Petition of the friars of Babwell to Edward I asking for the Hall of Pleas to be Removed From Babwell, 1302 [Tna Sc 8/1/21]

pp 106-106

18 - Mandate to the Sheriff of Suffolk to Enquire in to the Removal of Pleas From Cattishall to Henhowe, 4 April 1305 [Tn Ac 143/52, M. 13]

pp 107-108

19 - ‘The Depredation and Burning of the Abbey of St Edmund’ [Bl Ms Cotton Claudius a XII, fols 116r – 121r, 124r – 126v]

pp 108-131

20 - Letters of Protection of Edward III for the Warden and Friars of Babwell, 20 February 1327/8 [Tn Ac 66/169 Part 1, M. 29]

pp 132-132

21 - Letters of Protection of Edward III for the Warden and Friars of Babwell, 26 April 1328 [Tn Ac 66/169 Part 1, M. 11]

pp 133-133