Sherington Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village
Sherington Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village
Out of Print
First published in 1965, this book is a study of the feudal and economic development of a village from Norman times to the nineteenth century. Dr Chibnall has reconstructed the history of Sherington in north Buckinghamshire from little-known documents in the Public Records Office together with local and private records. After introductory chapters on the pre-Norman period Dr Chibnall gives a chronological account of the village's development. Some of the topics discussed are furlong names, the Domesday return, the impoverishment of the manorial families in late Tudor times, the yeomanry, and the effects on the village's economy of enclosure in neighbouring villages. Dr Chibnall's use of his various sources gives a closely integrated and continuous history of an English village which will be a model for social, agricultural and economic historians.
Product details
January 1965Hardback
9780521046374
328 pages
0.936kg
Unavailable - out of print March 2010
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- List of genealogical tables
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Beating the bounds
- 2. From Roman times to Domesday
- 3. The Carun family
- 4. The anarchy, Sherington church and Tickford priory
- 5. Richard de Carun as a ward of the king
- 6. The last siege of Bedford in 1224
- 7. The Cockfield family
- 8. John de Carun and Elias the Jew
- 9. Mr Justice Cave acquires property in Sherington
- 10. Martin de Carun and the law
- 11. The last of the Caruns
- 12. The Fitz John and re-arranged Cockfield manors
- 13. The Cave family as lawyers
- 14. The land in medieval Sherington
- 15. The value of land in medieval Sherington
- 16. The two-course system of husbandry in medieval Sherington
- 17. The meadows, wood and water-mill in medieval Sherington
- 18. The Church and its clergy in the thirteenth century
- 19. Sherington in the fourteenth century
- 20. Sherington in the fifteenth century
- 21. Economic conditions in Sherington under Henry VIII
- 22. The battle against enclosure
- 23. The leasing of Sherington rectory
- 24. The impoverishment of the manorial families
- 25. The rise and fall of the yeomanry, 1600–1750
- 26. The emergence of non-conformity
- 27. Sherington and the civil war
- 28. Agrarian economy under the three-field system of tillage
- 29. The Turnpike Trusts
- 30. Sherington after the Enclosure Award of 1797
- Appendices
- Index.
