Chronica Monasterii de Melsa, a Fundatione usque ad Annum 1396 Chronica Monasterii de Melsa, a Fundatione usque ad Annum 1396 3 Volume Set Series

The Cistercian abbey of Meaux in Yorkshire was founded in 1150 as a daughter house of Fountains. Thomas de Burton (d.1437) was bursar in 1394 and abbot from 1396 to 1399. His chronicle survives in two versions: the earlier, finished around 1396, and a revision completed around 1402, to which later additions were made. The work is one of the most important later medieval Cistercian chronicles, providing detailed information about the history and administration of Meaux, as well as local and national historical events. The surviving library catalogue reveals the sources available to Burton, and he drew extensively on the abbey archives. The work is arranged by the rule of each abbot, with subdivisions in each section for local and more general history, arranged by subject matter. Volume 3 covers the years 1339?1406, including Burton's own abbacy, and contains the catalogue of books and other treasures of the abbey, an index and glossary.

Preface; Appendix to preface; Chronicle under Hugh of Leven, the fifteenth abbot; William of Dringhowe (his first abbacy); John de Ryslay; Robert of Beverley, the sixteenth abbot; William of Dringhowe, the seventeenth abbot (his second abbacy); William of Scarborough, the eighteenth abbot; Preface to the continuation of the chronicle; Thomas Burton, the nineteenth abbot; William Wendover, the twentieth abbot; Glossary; Index.