Extracts from Newsham Abbey Cartulary

A copy, probably made by Edward Peacock, of extracts transcribed by Thomas Turpin in 1694 from the Black Book or cartulary of Newsham Abbey, Lincolnshire. The extracts comprise grants and charters of the Abbey. Entitled: Newsham Abbey ߠ As to the Foundation ߠ extracted ߠ from ߠ A Transcript of part of the Black book of ߠ Newsham ߠ intituled ߠ A particular of the several grants, privileges, and donations made to the Abbey of Newhus alias Newshum by several Persons in several Places being transcribed out of the original Coppies in Latin (so much as is legible) and faithfully translated into English By T[homas] T[urpin]. Anno Domini 1694.

The volume is incorrectly titled "Lincolnshire Wills" on the spine, and was wrongly identified in the Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, 1928.

For further extracts transcribed from the Black Book of Newsham Abbey, see English MS 221 below.

Lincolnshire Archives holds a volume with the bookplate of William Smith Hesleden containing manuscript translations from the Newsham charters, extracted from the translation by Tyruhitt Turpine. Entitled: Some Account of the Abbey of Newsham (originally called Newhus) near Brocklesby in the county of Lincoln... including the Particulars of its foundation with several of the Grants and Donations extracted from the manuscript in the Possession of the Earl of Yarborough at Brocklesby, and purporting to be a transcript and translation of the Black Book of Newsham, so far as the same was legible and capable of being decyphered in the year 1694 by Mr. Thomas Turpin (ref.: YARB 3/3/1/3 ).