INTRODUCTION
Jocelin of Brakelond's Chronicle takes us to the heart of the medieval world. His monastery of Bury St Edmunds was not a withdrawn community, secluded and segregated from ordinary lufe, such as the modern mind conjures up, but a center of political power and influence.

The Abbey in debt
I have been concerned here to record what I know from personal experience of the events that took place in St Edmund's church in my time, describing the bad deeds as well as the good, to provide both warning and example.