Request by John, abbot of Boxley (Kent), and Hermann, abbot of Stratford Langthorne...

Request by John, abbot of Boxley (Kent), and Hermann, abbot of Stratford Langthorne (Essex), pursuant to a scheme of taxation, negotiated by them and the abbot of Rewley (Oxfordshire), to support impoverished scholars of the Cistercian Order at Oxford, in response to a 'querela' presented in the general chapter of the Order in England and Wales, held in St Mary Graces abbey, London, by the abbot of Waverley (Surrey), and subsequent decrees issued by the general chapter (1398).

Following negotiations with the presidents and convocation of the Cistercian provinces of Canterbury and York at Oxford, a schedule of payments to be made by Cistercian abbeys in moieties at Purification and Pentecost next to come is presented. Places mentioned:

• Basingwerk abbey (Flintshire);
• Beaulieu abbey (Hampshire);
• Biddlesden abbey (Buckinghamshire);
• Bindon abbey (Dorset);
• Bordesley abbey (Worcestershire);
• Boxley abbey (Kent);
• Bruern abbey (Oxfordshire);
• Buckfast abbey (Devon);
• Buckland abbey (Devon);
• Buildwas abbey (Shropshire);
• Byland abbey (Yorkshire, North Riding);
• Calder abbey (Cumberland);
• Cleeve abbey (Somerset);
• Coggeshall abbey (Essex);
• Combe abbey (Warwickshire);
• Combermere abbey (Cheshire);
• Conway abbey (Carnarvonshire);
• Croxden abbey (Staffordshire);
• Cwmhir abbey (Radnorshire);
• Cymmer abbey (Merionethshire);
• Dieulacres abbey (Staffordshire);
• Dore abbey (Herefordshire);
• Dunkeswell abbey (Devon);
• Flaxley abbey (Gloucestershire);
• Forde abbey (Dorset);
• Fountains abbey (Yorkshire, West Riding);
• Furness abbey (Lancashire);
• Garendon abbey (Leicestershire);
• Grace Dieu abbey (Monmouthshire);
• Hailes abbey (Gloucestershire);
• Holmcultram abbey (Cumberland);
• Hulton abbey (Staffordshire);
• Jervaulx abbey (Yorkshire. West Riding);
• Kingswood abbey (Gloucestershire);
• Kirkstall abbey (Yorkshire, West Riding);
• Kirkstead abbey (II) (Lincolnshire);
• Llantarnam abbey (Monmouthshire);
• Louth Park abbey (Lincolnshire);
• Margam abbey (Glamorgan);
• Meaux abbey (Yorkshire, East Riding);
• Merevale abbey (Warwickshire);
• Neath abbey (Glamorgan);
• Netley abbey (Hampshire);
• Newenham abbey (Devon);
• Newminster abbey (Northumberland);
• Pipewell abbey (Northamptonshire);
• Quarr abbey (Isle of Wight);
• Revesby abbey (Lincolnshire);
• Rewley abbey (Oxfordshire);
• Rievaulx abbey (Yorkshire, North Riding);
• Robertsbridge abbey (Sussex);
• Roche abbey (Yorkshire, West Riding);
• Rufford abbey (Nottinghamshire);
• Sawley abbey (Yorkshire West Riding);
• Sawtry abbey (Huntingdonshire);
• Sibton abbey (Suffolk);
• Stanley abbey (Wiltshire);
• Stoneleigh abbey (Warwickshire);
• Strata Florida abbey (Cardiganshire);
• Strata Marcella abbey (Montgomeryshire);
• Stratford Langthorne abbey (Essex);
• Swineshead abbey (Lincolnshire);
• Thame abbey (Oxfordshire);
• Tilty abbey (Essex);
• Tintern abbey (Monmouthshire);
• Vale Royal abbey (Cheshire);
• Valle Crucis abbey (Denbighshire);
• Vaudey abbey (Lincolnshire);
• Warden abbey (Bedfordshire);
• Waverley abbey (Surrey);
• Whalley abbey (Lancashire);
• Whitland abbey (Carmarthenshire);
• Woburn abbey (Bedfordshire).

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