Copy of nasty rant is given to one of those in the abbey (10)
I believe the answer is:
transcript
'one of those in the abbey' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'copy of nasty rant is given to' is the wordplay.
'copy of' becomes 'script' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'nasty' indicates an anagram.
'is given to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'rant' with letters rearranged gives 'tran'.
'script' put after 'tran' is 'TRANSCRIPT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for transcript that I've seen before include "Written copy of, eg, a speech" , "Written copy of the spoken word" , "Record" , "Written item originally in another medium" , "Written version of speech" .)