The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Roger Norreys, Abbot of Lilleshall ( - 1375)
Roger Norreys, elected abbot in 1369, had at one time been vicar of North Molton (Devon) (Angold). Not to be confused with Roger Norreis, Abbot of Evesham from 1190 until his death in 1223.The prayer rolls for Norreys are at the Bodelian Library, MS. Rolls Salop. 2 (Angold, n. 111).
Relevant locations: Lived at or near Lilleshall, Shropshire
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
as Mentions or references - Houses of Augustinian canons: Abbey of Lilleshall.
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)
Bead-roll of Roger
Norreis, Abbot of Ed. 3Geo. Plaxton Berwic in Elmet) may
be seen a great Variety of Hands, writ in the
same Age, there being
in a large Parchment Scroll, the distinct Titulus of above 180 Reli
gious Houses; some curiously engross'd, others so
miserably writ, as
to be scarce legible; but all agree in Writing Dompnum for Dominum,
as some ancient Authors insert p in sumpsit.