The English Manor c.1200-c.1500

273 Pages·2002·2.514 MB·English

by  Mark Bailey

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THE ENGLISH MANOR
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selected sources translated and annotated by Mark Bailey

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Manchester University Press
Manchester
Copyright © Mark Bailey 2002
The right of Mark Bailey to be identified as the editor of this work has been asserted
by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
Published by Manchester University Press
Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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For my children, Katie and Harry
without whom this book would have been completed five years ago

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CONTENTS
Preface and acknowledgements page x
I: The composition and origins of the manor 1

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m y 15 A detailed description of the capital messuage of Willington,
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I 13 An extract from a survey of Culford, 1435 79
14 A rental of Lackford, 1399 81
15 An extract from a rental of Cassio, 1332 84
16 Rent payments made by tenants at Willington and Nether
Heworth, 1496 86
17 The lease of Caddington and Kensworth, 1299 88
18 The lease of Thorpe Underwood, 1524 91
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III: Manorial accounts 97
Introduction 97
The management of the manor 97
The format of the account 100
The evolution of the account 105
Historical uses of the account 111
19 An account of Wellingborough, 1258–59 116
20 An account of Wellingborough, 1321–22 120
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an di 33 The management of sheep flocks around Bury St Edmunds,
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35 The manner of holding courts, 1342 193
36 Some early court rolls of Tooting and Ruislip, 1247–48 194
37 Court rolls of Walsham-le-Willows, 1340 196
38 Court rolls of Walsham-le-Willows, 1389 204
39 Court roll of Downham, 1311 211
40 Court rolls of Yeadon, 1449, 1452 and 1459 212
41 Extract from the court roll of Great Bromley, 1382 220
42 Matters for consideration by the frankpledge, 1285 221
43 The manner of holding leet courts, 1340 223
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44 A leet court at Fifield, 1441 226
45 A leet court at Brandon, 1385 227
46 A tourn held on the manor of Wakefield, 1316 230
47 A case from a leet court at Walkern, 1337 234
Other manorial courts 235
48 A wreck court at Sizewell, 1378 235
49 A market court at Newmarket, 1409 237
50 Trade disputes recorded in market courts at Newmarket,
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