The Economic Development of a Norfolk Manor 1086–1565
The Economic Development of a Norfolk Manor 1086–1565
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USDThis highly detailed analysis of the medieval records of Forncett Manor, first published in 1906, is a case study of the development of an agricultural estate from early medieval to Tudor times. The economic system of the manor and the people who depended on it, aristocrats, tenants and serfs, is described and statistics are given where they can be extrapolated from the surviving records. Appendices list and transcribe important sections of the archive, including lists of tenants and financial records, as well as relevant passages of the Domesday Book. Starting from the documentary evidence, Harvard-trained Davenport does not speculate beyond the facts and offers little interpretation. However, she creates a highly instructive case study for medieval economic history that remains a rich source of valuable information for historians of later generations.
Product details
October 2010Paperback
9781108016056
232 pages
229 × 152 × 13 mm
0.35kg
1 b/w illus. 1 map
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. An Elizabethan survey and Domesday Book
- 2. The Demesne, 1270–1307
- 3. The Demesne, 1376–78
- 4. The Demesne, 1400–1605
- 5. The tenants and their land, 1272–1306
- 7. The tenants and their land, 1400–1575
- 8. Population
- Appendices:
- 1. MSS. relating to Forncett Manor
- 2. Abstract of part of the Survey of 1565
- 3. Entries in Domesday Book relating to the Vill of Forncett
- 4. Bond tenements of Forncett Manor, 1400–1565
- 5. Subsidy Roll of Forncett Vill, 1332
- 6. Landholders in Forncett Vill, and tenants of Forncett Manor, 1565
- 7. Table of leases, 1401–1500
- 8. Account roll of the Manor of Forncett, 1272–73
- 9. Account roll of the Manor of Forncett, 1376–78
- 10. Court Roll of the Manor of Forncett, 1400
- 11. Series of conveyances relating to a piece of the Demesne of Forncett Manor
- 12. Table showing number of conveyances entered in Forncett Court Rolls, 1401–1565
- 13. Wills of bondmen
- 14. Bill of Sir Henry Lee against Robert Bolitout and Thomas Lound. Answer of Thomas Lound
- Index.
