Rochester sources extracted for CCEd

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	Document Contents Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre, Strood The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office), London Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, York Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Printed sources

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone

	DRb/Ar1/15		Episcopal registers 1540–75
	DRb/Ar1/16		Episcopal registers 1576–1666 Includes 2 institutions from Chichester diocese (fo. 48r) and a register of orders for 1605 (fos 59r–62v).
	DRb/Ar/1/17		Episcopal register 1637–79
	DRb/Am/1		Muniment book 1683–1717
	DRb/Ai/1		Bishops’ institutions and collections 1685–1712 Omitted records of presentation.
	Uncatalogued act book		Act book 1713–1824
	DRa/Ai		Induction mandates Extracted for 1660–88. This collection also includes acts of resignations. In addition to those surviving for 1660–88, all those surviving for the periods 1550–1660 and 1688–1714 have been extracted, namely: 2/6 Allington 1714 8/1 Bidborough 1570 11/1 Burham 1556 18/1 Cooling 1550 25/1 Dartford 1574 36/1 Halling 1555 37/1 High Halstow 1583 39/1 Higham 1557 44/1 Horton Kirby 1590/1 46/1 Kingsdown 1552 47/1 Lamberhurst 1563-4 49/1-2, 8 Leigh 1563, 1568, 1713 64/1-2 Offham 1569, 1572 67/1 Pembury 1555 69/1 Ridley 1570 71/1 Ryarsh 1563 76/1 Stoke 1584 78/1 Sutton-at-Hone 1553 80/9 Teston 1711 88/1 Woolwich 1561
	DRB/Am 5		Muniment book 1754–73 Extracted the licensing of schoolmasters (fos 17r and 18v).
	DRB/L a 1		List of Curates’ licences 1814–87
	DRa/Vb.4		Visitation Book, 1562–5
	DRb/Pa.21		Consistory court correction book 1591–3 Extracted one case (Edward Topsell).
	DRb/Am/3		Muniment book 1716–24 Extracted the lists of cathedral clergy for 1716 (fos 6–7) and 1724 (fo. 96).
	DRb/Am/2		Muniment book 1717–26 Extracted the lists of clergy summoned to elect convocation proctors in 1713 (fos 11v–13v) and 1721 (fos 106–8).
	DRb/Vs/1		Visitation processes 1724–48
	DRb/Am/4		Muniment book 1727–54 Extracted the lists of clergy summoned to elect convocation proctors in June 1734 and August 1747.
	DRb/Vb/1		Visitation book 1738–48
	DRb/VpM/2		Visitation processes 1738
	DRb/VpR/2		Visitation processes 1738
	DRb/VpM/3		Visitation processes 1743
	DRb/VpM/4		Visitation processes 1748
	DRb/VpR/3		Visitation processes 1748
	DRb/VpR/4		Visitation processes 1748
	DRB/Vb1		Visitation processes, Rochester and Malling deaneries, 1754–1800 Extracted liber cleri for 1754, 1757, 1760, 1767, 1776, 1780, 1796, 1800.
	DRB/Vs1		Visitation processes, Dartford deanery, 1754–1830 Extracted liber cleri for 1754, 1757, 1760 and 1830.

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Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre, Strood

	DRc/Ac 2–4		Chapter books 1–3. Details of appointments of minor canons and schoolmasters, and to livings in the gift of the dean and chapter, and also, in 3–4, some libri cleri for the cathedral.
	DRc/Ac5		Chapter Minute Book 1706–21 Extracted appointments to cathedral offices and chapter livings.
	DRc/Ac6		Chapter Minute Book 1721–43 Extracted appointments to cathedral offices and chapter livings.
	DRc/Ac7		Chapter Minute Book 1744–65 Extracted appointments to cathedral offices and chapter livings.
	DRc/Ac8		Chapter Minute Book 1766–88 Extracted appointments to cathedral offices and chapter livings.
	DRc/Ac9		Chapter Minute Book 1788–1808 Extracted appointments to cathedral offices and chapter livings.
	DRc/Ac10		Chapter Minute Book 1808–27 Extracted appointments to cathedral offices and chapter livings.
	DRc/Ac11		Chapter Minute Book 1827–39 Extracted appointments to cathedral offices and chapter livings up to end of period covered by Database.
	DRc/Aoh		Appointment of schoolmasters Extracted 4–6
	DRc/Aom		Appointment and Resignations of Minor Canons Extracted 2–4
	DRc/Arb 2		‘The Red Book vol. 2.’ Installation of canons and appointment of minor canons 1660–79. Not yet completed.
	DRc/Arb/3		Red Book:volume 3 Installations of deans and prebendaries extracted.

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The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office), London

	E179/50		Clerical subsidy records c.1572–c.1596 nos. 92–4, 97–8, 100–2, 105, 107–8, 110–16.
	E179/51		Clerical subsidy records c.1594–1603 nos. 117–18, 120, 122–4, 126.
	E331/ROCHESTER/19–25		Returns of institutions to the Office of First Fruits and Tenths 1605–44 For ROCHESTER/19, only one record extracted (1 October 1605).
	E331/ROCHESTER/26–31		Returns of institutions to the Office of First Fruits and Tenths 1660–91
	E331/ROCHESTER/59–61		Returns of institutions to the Office of First Fruits and Tenths 1824–35

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Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, York

	Sub. Bk 2		Subscription Book of Archbishop Neile 1609–40 Includes subscriptions for Rochester diocese, 1609–10 (fos. 10r–12r).

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Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

	MS 97, fos 114r–115v		Archbishop Parker’s survey of Rochester diocese, 1561–2

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Printed sources

	British Magazine, 1832–6		Extracted ordinations 1832–5.
	Canterbury Sede Vacante		Kent Records. Calendar of Institutions by the Chapter of Canterbury sede vacante, ed. C. E. Woodruff and I. J. Churchill (1924), pp. 31, 39, 44, 47, 52, 60–1, 65, 70, 93, 101, 106, 118, 122, 124, 138.

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