Lucius episcopus servus servorum Dei dilectis filiis Hugonia abbati Premonstrat[ens]i et ceteris abbatibus et canonicis Premonstrat[ensis] ordinis, tam presentibus quam futuris, regularem vitam professis inperpetuum.

The Leake Cartulary is held at Derbyshire Record Office (D 1005 Z/E1). It was compiled c.1574 for Sir Francis Leake of Sutton, near Chesterfield (d. 1588), and contains extracts from several monastic cartularies relating to estates acquired by his family after the Dissolution. Twelve charters relating to Beauchief abbey's Harewood Grange estate in Beeley are transcribed on pages 39–43. Seven of these documents appear in the abbey's cartulary (164–167, 183, 187–188). The Leake copies were most probably transcribed from originals, rather than from this cartulary, and contain lists of witnesses and other details omitted there. These omissions have been given in the textual apparatus of the relevant documents printed above.

Willliam Dugdale (see W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. J. Caley, Sir H. Ellis, and B. Bandinel, 6 vols (1817–1830), VI.2, pp. 884–886) printed the royal confirmation, made at Lincoln on 20 February 1316, of fifty-five charters relating to Beauchief abbey, of which summaries were entered on the Patent Roll, 9 Edward II, p. 1 m. 3. Each item in this confirmation, reproduced here from Dugdale, is given a number so that, with the aid of the Concordance in Appendix III, corresponding items in the Cartulary and in the Confirmation of 1312 (38) can be found. Eighteen of the charters confirmed in 1316 are not recorded in the extant part of the Cartulary; of these an English summary is given.

Entries in the Cartulary that are recorded in the General Confirmation in 1312 by Thomas Chaworth of grants made by him and his ancestors or in the Royal Confirmation in 1316 by King Edward II or in both; entries in the General Confirmation in 1312 and the Royal Confirmation in 1316 which are not found in the Cartulary.