Pre-New College Records

The Archives include a significant series of documents—mainly deeds of title—for the college’s estates from before they became part of the college. Many of these were the properties of alien priories.

They include properties in the following counties and locations in the following quantities for roughly the following periods:

Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Essex
Essex & Hertfordshire
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Kent
Lincolnshire
London
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire
Surrey
Sussex
Warwickshire
Wiltshire
Yorkshire
Unidentified

Bedfordshire:

Sharnbrook: 5 items (1320–1332)
Steppingley: 116 items (c. 1250–1511)

Berkshire:

Bourton:1 item (1460/1)
Burghfield: 1 item (1334)
Donnington: 41 items (1249–1540)
Drayton: 49 items (1310–1503)
East Hendred: 30 items (1313–1509)
Long Wittenham: 1 item (c. 1500)
Reading: 1 item (1387)
South Hinksey: 17 items (c. 1200–1514)
Steventon: 1 item (1314)
West Hanney: 29 items (c. 1100–1529)

Buckinghamshire:

Chilton: 14 items (1311–1535)
Great Horwood: 63 items (1216–1575)
Hardwick: 35 items (1335–1525)
High Wycombe: 12 items (1455–1509)
Newton Longville: 140 items (1157–1593)
Radclive cum Chackmore: 40 items (c. 1270–1593)
Salden in Mursley: 2 items (1260–c. 1299)
Tingewick: 18 items (1331–1468)
Weedon: 47 items (c. 1270–1604)
Whaddon 1 item (1352)

Cambridgeshire:

Melbourn: 10 items (c. 1370–1489)
Steeple Morden: 29 items (1308–c. 1599)

Essex:

Bradwell-near-the-Sea: 12 items (c. 1200–1429)
Chrishall: 1 item (c. 1200–c. 1299)
Dengie: 12 items ([1366]–1407)
Hornchurch: 530 items (?1158–1796)
Maldon: 1 item (c. 1200–c. 1299)
Roxwell: 17 items (1219–1501)
Takeley: 289 items (c. 1100–1667)
Takeley & Broxted: 65 items (c. 1200–c. 1599)
Widdington: 22 items (1272–1580)
Writtle: 436 items (1203–1556)

Essex & Hertfordshire:

Birchanger, etc: 150 items (c. 1170–1532)

Gloucestershire:

Aust: 2 items (1386)
Lechlade: 3 items (c. 1200–c. 1299)

Hampshire:

Basingstoke: 1 item (1349)
Droxford: 5 items (1455–1557)
Heckfield: 26 items (1359–1437)
Kingsclere: 19 items (c. 1200–1510)
Michelmersh: 8 items (c. 1370–c. 1580)
Witney: 1 item (1366–1367)
Various parishes: 42 items (1199–c. 1499)

Kent:

Chislehurst: 75 items (1244–1635)
Murston: 27 items (1243–1871)
Ospringe: 1 item (1346)
Sevenoaks: 3 items (1399–1419)

Lincolnshire:

Various parishes: 13 items (c. 1270–1315)

London:

St Katherine Cree: 6 items (1327–1385)
St Olave Silver St: 6 items (c. 1170–1373)

Norfolk:

Attelbridge: 1 item (1552)
Great & Little Witchingham: 230 items (1288–1595+)
Weston Longville: 19 items (c. 1270–1595)

Northamptonshire:

Northampton: 3 items (c. 1200–1361)

Oxfordshire:

Adderbury: 26 items (1366–1407)
Bletchingdon: 1 item (1364)
Bodicote: 2 items (1290–1348)
Bucknell: 10 items (1271–1615)
Clifton Hampden: 1 item (1388)
Dorchester: 1 item (1163)
Epwell: 1 item (c. 1300–1399)
Eynsham: 1 item (1294)
Glympton: 1 item (c. 1270–1299)
Glympton & Souldern: 1 item (1295–1296)
Headington: 15 items (1357–1503)
Idbury & Foscot: 1 item (1352)
Kidlington: 1 item (c. 1200–1299)
Kingham: 44 items (1341–1555)
Kirtlington: 75 items (1271–1507)
North Leigh: 1 item (c. 1145)
Oxford All Saints: 12 items (c. 1300–1526)
Oxford St Aldate: 11 items (1428–1548)
Oxford St Edward Martyr: 32 items (1331–1536)
Oxford SS Giles & Mary Magdalen: 8 items (c. 1200–1523)
Oxford St Martin: 70 items (c. 1200–1557)
Oxford St Mary Magdalen: 48 items (c. 1200–1519)
Oxford St Mary the Virgin: 1 item (1417)
Oxford St Michael South Gate: 15 items (1340–1514)
Oxford St Peter East: 78 items (c. 1200–1533)
Oxford St Peter Bailey: 30 items (1349–1572)
Oxford St Thomas the Martyr: 3 items (c. 1200–1353)
Oxford SS Thomas & Martin: 3 items (1375–1504)
Oxford Miscellaneous: 44 items (c. 1200–1540)
Shipton on Cherwell: 20 items (1310–1457)
Standlake: 1 item (1381)
Stanton Harcourt: 1 item (c. 1130s)
Stanton St John: 30 items (c. 1170–1529)
Swalcliffe: 140 items (?1222–c. 1599)
Upper Heyford: 71 items (c. 1200–1499)
Witney: 2 items (?1377, 1419)
Woodstock: 29 items (1406–1509)
Yelford: 1 item (1306)
Various parishes: 123 items (1221–1510)