Monks Eleigh Manorial Records, 1210-1683

Monks Eleigh was one of the principal units of medieval administration, providing a legal framework for land tenure, the prosecution of crimes and misdemeanours and social control.

List of contents

INTRODUCTION
Editorial conventions


THE DOCUMENTS

I. Charters, mid-twelfth century to 1360
II. Extents, early thirteenth century to early fourteenth century
IV. Building accounts, 1343 to 1466
III. Accounts, 1285 to 1482
V. Court rolls, 1305/6 to 1422 and 1545
VI. Rentals, 1379-80 to 1683
VII. Petition and Legal Documents relating to a riot in 1481

Glossary, including saints' days used for dating
Bibliography
Index of people and places
Index of subjects

About the author

VIVIENNE ALDOUS is a part-time lecturer in history at the University of Suffolk. She is a qualified archivist, having previously worked for over twenty years at the Corporation of London Records Office, following which she ran her own business as a commercial archival researcher. She is currently studying for a PhD on the life and works of the sixteenth-century Suffolk map-maker and surveyor, John Darby.

Summary

Monks Eleigh was one of the principal units of medieval administration, providing a legal framework for land tenure, the prosecution of crimes and misdemeanours and social control.

Product details

• Assisted by: Vivienne Aldous (Editor), Vivienne (Author for SRS) Aldous (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781783276790
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-679-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 164 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 774 g
• Illustrations: 13 b/w illus.
• Series: Suffolk Records Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias