Publications
A Handbook for Lewes, Historical and Descriptive: With Notices of the recent discoveries at the Priory, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1846 (London: John Russell Smith) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries
Account of Two Leaden Chests, containing the Bones, and inscribed with the Names of William de Warren and his wife Gundrada, founders of Lewes Priory in Sussex, discovered in October, 1845, within the Priory precinct, by W. H. Blaauw, published 1846 in Archaeologia; or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity (vol. 31, article, pp.438-442) View Online
Abstract:It is well known that the coffin-shaped tomb of Gundrada, finely sculptured in black marble, probably a limestone found in Britany in Dr. Mantell's opinion, was discovered in 1775 in Isfield Church, five miles from Lewes, forming the upper slab of the monument of Edward Shirley, cofferer to Henry VIII. who died in 1558; and Sir William Burrell removed it to Southover Church in Lewes, where, after seventy years' interval, her bones and coffin, as well as those of her husband, have now been brought. The sandstone slab, which was substituted on the Shirley monument, is five feet five inches and a half long; and as Gundrada's monument has been broken off at five feet four inches, it may be suspected that the Shirleys broke off the twelve or fourteen inches, wanting to complete it, in order to adapt it to the space required.
A Few Remarks on the Discovery of the Remains of William de Warren, and his wife Gundrad, among the ruins of the Priory of Saint Pancras, at Southover, near Lewes, in Sussex, by Gideon Algernon Mantell, LL.D., F.R.S., published 1846 in Archaeologia; or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity (vol. 31, article, pp.430-437) View Online
Abstract:It is not a little remarkable that so few objects of geological, or antiquarian, interest should hitherto have been brought to light, by the excavations and cuttings made, during the formation of the numerous lines of railway, in various parts of England. Extensive as are these operations, the accessions to the collection of the geologist, and to the cabinet of the antiquary, have been comparatively unimportant. The most interesting archaeological discovery effected by the railway cuttings, is unquestionably that which took place, about six weeks since, in the ruins of Lewes Priory; namely, of the two leaden coffers, containing the remains of the founder and foundress of that once celebrated religious establishment.
Reports on the Antiquities Lately Found at Lewes, by M. A. Lower, published December 1846 in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (first series, vol 1, issue 4, article, pp.346-357) View Online
The Battaile of Lewes and Other Legends of St. Pancras' Priory, Lewes, by Arthur Lee, published 1847 (70 pp., Lewes: Baxter & Son) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502856] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
On the Early History of Lewes Priory, and its Seals, with extracts from a MS. Chronicle, by W. H. Blaauw, published 1849 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 2, article, pp.7-37) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2087] & The Keep [LIB/500221] & S.A.S. library View Online
On the Cluniac Priory of St Pancras, at Lewes, its Priors and Monks, by W. H. Blaauw, published 1850 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 3, article, pp.185-210) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2088] & The Keep [LIB/500222] & S.A.S. library View Online
A Handbook for Lewes, Historical and Descriptive: With Notices of the recent discoveries at the Priory, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1852 (2nd edition, R. W. Lower) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Architectural Relics of Lewes Priory. With an Introduction, by Rev. F. Spurrell, M.A., published 1853 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 6, article, pp.253-264) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2091] & The Keep [LIB/500225] & S.A.S. library View Online
On "The Lantern" in the Cluniac Priory of St Pancras, Lewes, by William Figg, F.S.A., published 1854 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 7, article, pp.151-158) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2092] & The Keep [LIB/500226] & S.A.S. library View Online
St Pancras Priory, Lewes, by Reginald Blaker, published 1871 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 23, notes & queries, pp.325-327) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2108] & The Keep [LIB/500241] & S.A.S. library View Online
Documents Relating to Lewes Priory, with translations and notes, by John Robert Daniel-Tyssen, published 1873 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 25, article, pp.136-151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2110] & The Keep [LIB/500243] & S.A.S. library View Online
A Handbook for Lewes, Historical and Descriptive, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1880 (3rd editioh, J. Richards) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
The Architectural History of the Cluniac Priory of St. Pancras at Lewes, by W. H. St John Hope, B.A., F.S.A., published 1884 in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 41, article, pp.1-34) View Online
The Architectural History of the Cluniac Priory of St Pancras at Lewes, by W. H. St John Hope, published 1886 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 34, article, pp.71-106) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2119] & The Keep [LIB/500252] & S.A.S. library View Online
Charters of the Abbey of Cluni: More particularly affecting its Affiliated Priory of St Pancras, at Lewes, by Sir George F. Duckett, published 1886 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 34, article, pp.121-126) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2119] & The Keep [LIB/500252] & S.A.S. library View Online
Account of the Existing Cartularies of Religious Houses in Sussex, Particularly that of the Priory of Lewes, by Richard Sims, published December 1886 in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (first series, vol 42, issue 4, article, pp.355-368) View Online
Additional materials towards the History of the Priory of St Pancras at Lewes, by Sir George F. Duckett, published 1887 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 35, article, pp.101-126) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2120] & The Keep [LIB/500253] & S.A.S. library View Online
An Early Grant to Lewes Priory, by The Editor, published 1887 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 35, notes & queries, pp.193-194) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2120] & The Keep [LIB/500253] & S.A.S. library View Online
Ordinance for the Better Observance of the Obits and Services for the Dead, throughout the Subordinate Foundations of Cluni, by Sir George F. Duckett, published 1892 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 38, article, pp.39-42) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2123] & The Keep [LIB/500256] & S.A.S. library View Online
Lewes Priory, by J. Lewis André, F.S.A., published 1892 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 38, notes & queries, p.198) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2123] & The Keep [LIB/500256] & S.A.S. library View Online
Relics from St. Pancras' Priory, Lewes, by Charles T. Phillips, published 1892 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 38, notes & queries, p.205) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2123] & The Keep [LIB/500256] & S.A.S. library View Online
Some early Grants to Lewes Priory, by J. Horace Round, M.A., published 1896 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 40, article, pp.58-78) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2125] & The Keep [LIB/500258] & S.A.S. library View Online
Lewes Priory - Acknowledgment by a "Servus" and "Rusticus", by F. R. Fairbank, published 1896 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 40, notes & queries, pp.265-266) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2125] & The Keep [LIB/500258] & S.A.S. library View Online
Probable Remains of Lewes Priory, by C. T. Phillips, published 1896 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 40, notes & queries, p.269) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2125] & The Keep [LIB/500258] & S.A.S. library View Online
The "Great Pigeon-House" of the Cluniac Priory of St. Pancras, Lewes, by Frederick John, published 1896 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 40, notes & queries, pp.270-271) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2125] & The Keep [LIB/500258] & S.A.S. library View Online
Guide to Lewes. The Castle and the Priory, by John Sawyer, published c.1900 (Ringmer: Frank W. Burgess) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
On some Encaustic Tiles & other objects recently discovered at Lewes Priory, by Ambrose P. Boyson, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., published 1900 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 43, article, pp.214-219) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2128] & The Keep [LIB/500261] & S.A.S. library View Online
The Annals of Lewes Priory, by F. Liebermann, published January 1902 in The English Historical Review (vol. xvii, issue lxv, article, pp.83-89, ISSN: 0013-8266) View Online
The Cluniac Priory of St Pancras at Lewes., by W. H. St John Hope, M.A., published 1906 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 49, article, pp.66-88) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2134] & The Keep [LIB/500267] & S.A.S. library View Online
A New Guide to Lewes: its Castle, Priory, Churches and Neighbourhood, by W. Heneage Legge, published c.1909 (52 pp., London: Enterprise Printing Co.) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4267] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
with notes on the Museum and an account of the Battle of Lewes & illustrated with drawings by Arthur Legge and with photographs and a map of the town.
Lewes Priory, by Philip Mainwaring Johnston, F.S.A., published 1910 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 53, notes & queries, pp.279-280) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2138] & The Keep [LIB/500271] & S.A.S. library View Online
Press-Marks on the Deeds of Lewes Priory, by V. H. Galbraith, published 1924 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 65, article, pp.196-205) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2150] & The Keep [LIB/500283] & S.A.S. library
Lewes Priory Tithes, by M. S. Holgate, published May 1926 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 2, note, pp.49-51) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library
Lewes Priory Charters , by M. S. Holgate, published August 1926 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 3, note, p.77) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library
The Priory of St Pancras, Lewes: A Short Historical Guide to the Ruins at Southover, by Walter H. Godfrey, published 1927 (24 pp., Lewes: J. C. Kenward) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8256] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
The Lewes Priory Mount, by A. C. Crookshank, published February 1927 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 5, note, p.153) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library
Lewes Priory Hospital and Southover Church , by Walter H. Godfrey, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., published August 1927 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 7, article, pp.201-203) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library
Relics of Lewes Priory, by S.N.Q. Contributor, published February 1931 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 5, note, pp.160-161) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library
Chartulary of Lewes Priory, Part I, by L. F. Salzman, published 1933 (vol. 38, Sussex Record Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2254] & The Keep [LIB/504458][Lib/500410]
Review in Sussex Notes and Queries, May 1933:The Sussex Record Society has again put the students of Sussex history under a heavy debt of gratitude. It has undertaken the publication of the Chartulary of the Priory of St. Pancras, Lewes, as far as it concerns Sussex. The first volume is now published (Vol xxxviii of the Society's series) and the rest will be published in a further volume next year.
The Chartulary is amongst the Cottonian MSS. (Vespasian F.xv) in the British Museum. The Sussex portion has been edited and translated by Mr. L. F. Salzman, F.S.A., whose ability to deal with such an exacting task is recognised throughout the world of the learned. His work has been aided by the tireless labour and ability of the Rev. W. Budgen, F.S.A., Hon. Sec. of the S.R.S., in supplying the index.
All those who have studied the history of Sussex know that many of the earliest references to places in the County are to be found in the Charters of the three first Earls of Warenne. For the first time these Charters are given together in full, with many others as contained in the Chartulary. The original charters, in many cases, still exist in the Public Record Office. The date of the Chartulary is 1444, but existing originals go back as far as 1095 (Ancient Deeds AA. 463).
It may be as well to put on record that many of these originals were contained in the collection called 'Chapter House, Misc. Books ; B.5/5,' so called from having been kept in the Chapter House at Westminster. This is the reference given by Sir George Duckett in S.A.C. xxxv, 3, and also by Mr. Round in S.A.C. xl, 58. This book has since been cut up and the charters catalogued individually (see also S.A.C. lxv, 196).
A list of all the existing charters referred to in the body of the Chartulary is placed at the commencement of the volume, and footnotes giving variants, etc., make the whole a scholarly as well as an invaluable production.
The volume has been most cordially received by all members of the S.R.S. No doubt a full review will appear in the next volume of S.A.C. and in the meantime we advise our readers to hasten to secure a copy of a most valuable record.
The Chartulary is amongst the Cottonian MSS. (Vespasian F.xv) in the British Museum. The Sussex portion has been edited and translated by Mr. L. F. Salzman, F.S.A., whose ability to deal with such an exacting task is recognised throughout the world of the learned. His work has been aided by the tireless labour and ability of the Rev. W. Budgen, F.S.A., Hon. Sec. of the S.R.S., in supplying the index.
All those who have studied the history of Sussex know that many of the earliest references to places in the County are to be found in the Charters of the three first Earls of Warenne. For the first time these Charters are given together in full, with many others as contained in the Chartulary. The original charters, in many cases, still exist in the Public Record Office. The date of the Chartulary is 1444, but existing originals go back as far as 1095 (Ancient Deeds AA. 463).
It may be as well to put on record that many of these originals were contained in the collection called 'Chapter House, Misc. Books ; B.5/5,' so called from having been kept in the Chapter House at Westminster. This is the reference given by Sir George Duckett in S.A.C. xxxv, 3, and also by Mr. Round in S.A.C. xl, 58. This book has since been cut up and the charters catalogued individually (see also S.A.C. lxv, 196).
A list of all the existing charters referred to in the body of the Chartulary is placed at the commencement of the volume, and footnotes giving variants, etc., make the whole a scholarly as well as an invaluable production.
The volume has been most cordially received by all members of the S.R.S. No doubt a full review will appear in the next volume of S.A.C. and in the meantime we advise our readers to hasten to secure a copy of a most valuable record.
The Second Daughter of Cluni, by Mildred Marston, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 9, article, pp.579-581) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]
Carved Stones from Lewes Priory , by Walter H. Godfrey, published February 1933 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IV no. 5, article, p.90) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2203][Lib 8222][Lib 8861] & The Keep [LIB/500206] & S.A.S. library
Chartulary of Lewes Priory, Part II, by L. F. Salzman, published 1935 (vol. 40, Sussex Record Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8039][Lib 2256] & The Keep [LIB/504459][Lib/500412]
A Sussex Missal: The Recent Discovery of a Breviary of Lewes Priory, by P. R. E. Tanner, published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 4, article, pp.226-228) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500179]
Lewes Priory [ re: Sir Richard Sackville], by Ernest Straker, published August 1935 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 7, query, p.222) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library
Lewes Priory, by Walter H. Godfrey, published November 1935 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 8, reply, p.254) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library
The Mutilated Effigy in West Walton Church, Norfolk , by Mary S. Holgate, F.S.A., published February 1936 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 1, article, pp.2-6) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library
Lewes Priory and West Walton, Norfolk , by M. S. H. [Mary S. Holgate], published August 1936 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 3, article, pp.82-84) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library
The Baliol Family in Sussex, Normandy and Scotland , by Laurence F. Field, published November 1936 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 4, article, pp.100-103) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library
The Monument at West Walton (ref: S.N.Q. Feb., 1936), by S.N.Q. contributor, published August 1937 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 7, note, p.221) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library
The Priory Mounds of Lewes and Christchurch, by Lieut.-Col. D. Macleod, published November 1939 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 8, article, pp.228-229) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library
General History of Lewes Priory in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, by B. M. Crook, published 1940 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 81, article, pp.68-96) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2166] & The Keep [LIB/500348] & S.A.S. library
The Charters of Lewes Priory, by Barbara Mary Crook, published 1941 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 82, article, pp.73-95) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2167] & The Keep [LIB/500347] & S.A.S. library
Lewes Priory and the Early Group of Wall Paintings in Sussex, by Audrey M. Baker, published 1942 in Walpole Society (vol. 31, article, pp.1-44) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7528]
Review by A. E. [Arundell Esdaile] in Sussex Notes and Queries, May 1947:This it not a review of Miss Baker's careful and fully illustrated study of the paintings in the parish churches of Clayton, Hardham, Plumpton and Westmeston, for she purports to follow it by one devoted to Hardham, and the time for a review will be then. The chief problems presenting themselves were (1) the supposed Cluniac origin of the paintings, for Lewes Priory had interests in all but Westmeston; and (2) whether English art was much modified by the Conquest. By study of contemporary art in wall paintings and illuminated MSS. in England and on the Continent, Miss Baker rejects the first, often-propounded, theory, and suggests that the influence of William de Warenne has been underrated. Similarly she fails to find any evidence of sudden change in English art due to the Normans.
Fifteenth-century sculpture from Lewes Priory, by W. H. Godfrey, published April 1955 in The Antiquaries Journal (vol. 35 issue 1-2, note, p.88) View Online
A Note on the Architectural History of Lewes Priory, by J. T. Smith, published 1964 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 102, article, pp.33-38) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2187] & The Keep [LIB/500327] & S.A.S. library
Lewes Priory in 1772, by Richard Gilbert, published November 1965 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 6, article, pp.194-198) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library
Archaeology and Lewes, by Richard Lewis, published December 1972 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 8, article, pp.30-31) accessible at: S.A.S. library Download PDF
Excavations 1976: Lewes Priory, Southover, by Richard Lewis, published December 1976 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 20, article, pp.96-97, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library Download PDF
Excavations 1977: Lewes Priory, Southover, by Richard Lewis, published December 1977 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 23, article, p.125, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library Download PDF
Lewes Priory - 900 Years Old, published September 1978 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 3 no. 6, article, p.182) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7967] & The Keep [LIB/501255] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
A 12th-century figure fragment from Lewes Priory, by Malcolm Thurlby, published 1982 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 120, archaeological note, pp.215-222) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8620] & The Keep [LIB/500307] & S.A.S. library
The Tournai Marble Sculptures of Lewes Priory, by F. Anderson, published 1984 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 122, article, pp.85-100) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9140] & The Keep [LIB/500309] & S.A.S. library
The noted Cluniac breviary-missal of Lewes: Fitzwilliam Museum manuscript 369, by Stephen Holder, published January 1985 in Journal of the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society (vol. 8, article, pp.25-32) View Online
Abstract:The manuscript Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 369 (henceforth Cfm 369) was made in the 13th century for the English Cluniac priory of St.Pancras at Lewes in Sussex. It is not known if the priory itself produced the manuscript or if it were copied elsewhere. Leroquais described it as a breviary-missal. It is undoubtedly the most important surviving English Cluniac liturgical source, for it contains not only the liturgical texts of mass and office complete, but is also notated. Among the services for monastic office and mass there appears a full monastic rhymed office for St.Thomas of Canterbury, unspoilt, a rarity in England. Cfm 369 also has a full office for the patron saint of the priory, St.Pancras.
The Romanesque sculptures of Lewes Priory, by Freda Elizabeth Mary Anderson, 1987 at University of London (Ph.D. thesis)
Another Lewes forgery ?, by M.J. Franklin, published 1988 in Journal of the Society of Archivists (9(1), article, pp.30-37)
Two Romanesque Capitals from Lewes Priory, by F. Anderson, published 1989 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 127, article, pp.49-60) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10604] & The Keep [LIB/500302] & S.A.S. library
St Pancras Priory, Lewes: Its Architectural Development to 1200, by F. Anderson, published 7 September 1989 in Anglo-Norman Studies XI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1988 (article, pp.1-36, Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9780851155265) View Online
The Dissolution of St. Pancras Priory, Lewes, Its Prior and Brethren, by Ronald Tibble, published September 1991 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 9 no. 7, article, pp.257-261) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11999] & The Keep [LIB/501261] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The first great house in England to be dissolved was the Priory of St Pancras at Lewes on 17 November 1537. Thomas Cromwell wanted the priory for his own use and agreed to grant pensions to all the monks.
Excavations at Lewes Friary 1985-1986 and 1988-1989, by Mark Gardiner and Others, published 1996 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 134, article, pp.71-124) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13390] & The Keep [LIB/500296] & S.A.S. library
Lewes Priory: Excavations by Richard Lewis, 1969-82, by Malcolm A. B. Lyne and Mark Gardiner, published June 1997 (197 pp., Lewes: Lewes Priory Trust, ISBN-10: 095308390X & ISBN-13: 9780953083909) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503443] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:A detailed record of the findings of Richard Lewis who died before he could publish the results of his work.
Lewes Priory: The Site and its History, by Helen Poole, published 2000 (56 pp., Lewes Priory Trust, ISBN-10: 0953083918 & ISBN-13: 9780953083916) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:A history putting the Priory of St Pancras into its context locally, nationally and spiritually with illustrations from private collections and the photographic resources of the Sussex Archaeological Society.
Lewes Past, by Helen Poole, published 6 October 2000 (144 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 1860771270 & ISBN-13: 9781860771279) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:The county town of East Sussex can look back on more than a thousand years of well-recorded history, and this perceptive book examines its life over that span of time through the events and the individuals that have given Lewes its character. The author examines the influence of the River Ouse on commerce; the roads, once so bad that oxen took people to church; religion, dominated for 450 years by the Cluniac Priory of St Pancras at Southover; markets and fairs, agriculture, law and order, and much more. This book has much to say and it does very powerfully.
Priory of St Pancras Lewes: Site History, Ground Penetrating Radar Survey, Reconstructions, edited by Graham Mayhew, published 2008 (Lewes) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501309] & East Sussex Libraries
The Priory of St Pancras Lewes: Priory Park, by Arthur Franklin and edited by Kate Hickmott and Anthony Freeman, published 12 April 2011 (36 pp., Lewes Priory Trust, ISBN-10: 0953083926 & ISBN-13: 9780953083923) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries
The Monks of St Pancras, Lewes Priory, England's Premier Cluniac Monastery and its Dependencies 1076-1537, by Graham Mayhew, published December 2013 (468 pp., Lewes History Press, ISBN-10: 0992698405 & ISBN-13: 9780992698409) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507815] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
A Breviary-Missal of Lewes Priory, published (no date)
Review by A. E. [Arundell Esdaile] in Sussex Notes and Queries, February 1941:The Fitzwilliam Museum possesses a small manuscript volume containing the "Breviary-Missal" of the Use of Lewes, which was fully and scholarly described in 1935 by the Abbe Victor Leroquais, before it left the collection of M. Georges Moreau and returned to this country.
In the MS. catalogue of M. Moreau's collection the volume was wildly described as a "Graduale Romanum." The Abbe Leroquais, bringing to it liturgiological and palaeographical skill and experience, has little difficulty in proving, first from its contents, that it is not a Gradual at all, but a Breviary to which are added elements of the Missal, such as was used for travelling; and secondly, from the Calendar and special service, that the Use is not that of Rome, but (1) Monastic, since the Office includes the twelve lessons, (2) Cluniac, since the Saints commemorated include the Abbots and Saints of Cluny, (3) English, since there also appear several English Saints, and notably St. Richard of Chichester, and finally (4) of Lewes, the mother house of the English Cluniacs, since peculiar honours are done to S. Pancras, and (the Abbé has kept this up his sleeve all the time) the Suffrages begin with the words: Incipiunt suffragia sanctorum secundum consuetudinem Lewecensem.
The MS. is not of a single piece. The bulk of it (leaves 17 to 456, i.e., to the end) is the older, and the Calendar (leaves A-N) and the Psalter (leaves 1-16) rather later. On the evidence of script and decoration the first part is dateable to the later part of the thirteenth century; and this is supported by the presence in the Sanctorale of the Feast of St. Richard of Chichester, who was canonised in 1262, while that of St. Louis, which was incorporated into the Cluniac Use in 1300, only appears in the added leaves. These latter also include, apparently in yet another and somewhat later hand, the Office of Corpus Christi, which was only adopted into the Use in 1315. There are also some less important leaves in a later fourteenth century hand.
The history of the volume from the suppression of the Priory to 1589 is unknown. In that year, as is shown by a formal note written along the margin of the first page of the Calendar, it was bought by Dominique Moustoulh, priest of Buys, in the Dauphine (Buis-la-Baronnie, Drome) from an apothecary, a member of his family, and stayed there till it was bought in the latter half of the eighteenth century from a M. Reynaud, sous-délégué of Buis, by M. B. J. Moreau de Vérone, president of the Chambre des Comptes of the Dauphiné, and a well-known antiquary, who died in 1796. Between him and M. Moreau nothing is known of its breves domini. It was well cared for all through, and is in excellent condition.
The decorations are not of the sumptuous sort which distinguish MSS. written for the royal and noble laity. But it has two dignified full-page illuminations, of the Virgin and Child and of the Crucifixion, and thirteen historiated initials. It is probable that it was produced for the Prior, or perhaps rather for some lower officer of the House, to take with him on the many journeys that would have had to be made round the daughter houses of the Order in England. But we are not authorised by it to suppose it the work of the Lewes scriptorium, of which, so far as I know, no product remains, though there must have been one. Like another book known to have been at Lewes and now at Cambridge (Fitzwilliam MS. 13) it was, as Mr. Francis Wormald of the British Museum believes, written on the Continent. Moreover, Mr. Tolhurst points out, the purely local Saints have no Offices of their own; and, the Cluniac Order being highly centralised, the local Houses, even a Provincial Mother House like St. Pancras, probably had no liturgical freedom at all.
In the MS. catalogue of M. Moreau's collection the volume was wildly described as a "Graduale Romanum." The Abbe Leroquais, bringing to it liturgiological and palaeographical skill and experience, has little difficulty in proving, first from its contents, that it is not a Gradual at all, but a Breviary to which are added elements of the Missal, such as was used for travelling; and secondly, from the Calendar and special service, that the Use is not that of Rome, but (1) Monastic, since the Office includes the twelve lessons, (2) Cluniac, since the Saints commemorated include the Abbots and Saints of Cluny, (3) English, since there also appear several English Saints, and notably St. Richard of Chichester, and finally (4) of Lewes, the mother house of the English Cluniacs, since peculiar honours are done to S. Pancras, and (the Abbé has kept this up his sleeve all the time) the Suffrages begin with the words: Incipiunt suffragia sanctorum secundum consuetudinem Lewecensem.
The MS. is not of a single piece. The bulk of it (leaves 17 to 456, i.e., to the end) is the older, and the Calendar (leaves A-N) and the Psalter (leaves 1-16) rather later. On the evidence of script and decoration the first part is dateable to the later part of the thirteenth century; and this is supported by the presence in the Sanctorale of the Feast of St. Richard of Chichester, who was canonised in 1262, while that of St. Louis, which was incorporated into the Cluniac Use in 1300, only appears in the added leaves. These latter also include, apparently in yet another and somewhat later hand, the Office of Corpus Christi, which was only adopted into the Use in 1315. There are also some less important leaves in a later fourteenth century hand.
The history of the volume from the suppression of the Priory to 1589 is unknown. In that year, as is shown by a formal note written along the margin of the first page of the Calendar, it was bought by Dominique Moustoulh, priest of Buys, in the Dauphine (Buis-la-Baronnie, Drome) from an apothecary, a member of his family, and stayed there till it was bought in the latter half of the eighteenth century from a M. Reynaud, sous-délégué of Buis, by M. B. J. Moreau de Vérone, president of the Chambre des Comptes of the Dauphiné, and a well-known antiquary, who died in 1796. Between him and M. Moreau nothing is known of its breves domini. It was well cared for all through, and is in excellent condition.
The decorations are not of the sumptuous sort which distinguish MSS. written for the royal and noble laity. But it has two dignified full-page illuminations, of the Virgin and Child and of the Crucifixion, and thirteen historiated initials. It is probable that it was produced for the Prior, or perhaps rather for some lower officer of the House, to take with him on the many journeys that would have had to be made round the daughter houses of the Order in England. But we are not authorised by it to suppose it the work of the Lewes scriptorium, of which, so far as I know, no product remains, though there must have been one. Like another book known to have been at Lewes and now at Cambridge (Fitzwilliam MS. 13) it was, as Mr. Francis Wormald of the British Museum believes, written on the Continent. Moreover, Mr. Tolhurst points out, the purely local Saints have no Offices of their own; and, the Cluniac Order being highly centralised, the local Houses, even a Provincial Mother House like St. Pancras, probably had no liturgical freedom at all.