of Sawley Abbey
Published: 1235
Language: lat
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Salley Abbey; Cistercians
Description: Charters concering lands in Bolton-by-Bowland (Lancashire, England).
Notes: 15 charters written in an English Gothic document hand; 10 with wax seals.

All related to the Cartulary of Sawley Abbey (British Library, Harley MS 112), two-thirds recorded there, one-third unpublished.

For more information see curatorial file.

McNulty, J. The Chartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of Saint Mary of Salley in Craven (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series, LXXXVII), I, 1933.

MS Lat 421. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

The Abbey of Saint Mary of Sawley (or Sallay, or Salley), in Craven, founded in 1147/1148, was one of eight Cistercian monasteries settled in Yorkshire, affiliated with Clairvaux.

In Latin.
Table of contents: title: 1. Symon, son of William de Bramton, granting to Sawley Abbey land beside their grange at Hungrill, a farm about a mile north-west of Bolton Church, ca. 1235-1250; with wax seal; title: 2. William, son of Simon de Bramton, granting to Sawley Abbey all his and his father's land in Bolton and confirming his father's gift, ca. 1250-1260; with wax seal; title: 3. Indenture of Matilda, widow of Richard Goldesburgh, giving her Abbey land in Bolton in exchange for her rights over other property in Bolton, ca. 1257; with wax seal; title: 4. Indenture of John de Bolton leasing to Sawley Abbey a meadow in Hungrill in exchange for a lease on land at Wybersey and in "le Bottes" by Holden Gate, ca. 1260-1270; title: 5. Indenture of Hugh de Wigehale, Abbot of Sawley, granting lands in Braderode to William de Blakeburne, rector of Bolton, in exchange for land at Fooden, ca. 1265-1275; with wax seal; title: 6. Quitclaim by John, son of Heck Tempersnape, for rights over lands in Bolton, ca. 1294; title: 7. Grant to Sawley Abbey by Roger Tempersnape, son of the above, of all his family's lands in Bolton except a pasture called Hecke Croft, ca. 1275-1300; title: 8. Grant to Sawley Abbey by Adam son of William de Malasis of all his ancestral lands in Bolton, ca. 1275-1300; with wax seal; title: 9. Indenture of Richard de Goldesburgh confirming the lease to Sawley Abbey of land in Bolton which Richard de Midhop made in the name of his father, Richard of Goldsburgh, 1307; title: 10. Inquisition made before the archbishop of York confirming the lease to Sawley Abbey of part of Bolton Manor by Richard de Goldesburgh, ca. 1309-1310; title: 11. Grant to Sawley Abbey by William le Vavassour of all his land which Richard de Goldesburgh had been leasing to the Abbey, 1310; with wax seal; title: 12. Quitclaim by Richard son of Richard Mydhop for rights over a path across the Abbey's land, 1319; with wax seal; title: 13. Agreement between John de Bolton, rector of Bolton Church, over disputed lands of the Avvey at Fulden [as Fooden in no. 5] in Bolton; with wax seal; title: 14. Sixteen-year lease by Sawley Abbey to John de Bolton, 1324; title: 15. Grand by John de Bolton, rector of Bolton, to Sawley Abbey of the long-disputed land at Fulden, 1344; with wax seal.