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The Corpus of Accounting Material

In: Accounting at Durham Cathedral Priory

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  • Alisdair Dobie

    (University of Stirling)

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The medieval accounting materials which survive from Durham Cathedral Priory constitute one of the largest collections from any medieval institution outside royal government. The total number of extant items within the medieval archive, including accounting and non-accounting material, has been estimated to be approximately 40,00c).1 Following the surrender of the house in December 1539 its last prior, Hugh Whitehead, was left in a position as a ‘caretaker manager’, and in 1541 he became the dean of the newly constituted chapter of Durham Cathedral which was largely endowed with the estates pertaining to the former priory.2 Thus there was both a continuity in administration and a reason to preserve ancient records, potentially useful in upholding claims to land or revenue at a much later date. For similar reasons, large collections of medieval accounting material also survive from other Benedictine foundations such as those of Canterbury Norwich, Westminster, Winchester and Worcester.3

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  • Alisdair Dobie, 2015. "The Corpus of Accounting Material," Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, in: Accounting at Durham Cathedral Priory, chapter 3, pages 76-116, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psitcp:978-1-137-47978-5_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137479785_4
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