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In c.1300, the manors of Westminster Abbey were one of the wealthiest monasteries in late medieval England. This book documents the agricultural economy of the Abbey and demonstrates the sophisticated financial and administrative systems the monks employed in a transition from the direct management of their lands, to systems of leaseholds.
List of contents
- Editorial Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Editorial Conventions, Weights and Measures
- Part 2
- TEXTS: THE CONVENT'S ESTATES (continued from Part 1)
- II 10 WAM 6176 Remainders (states) at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the convent's manors for the year ending on 1 August 1352
- II 11 WAM 6194 Remainders (states) at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories for the year ending on 1 August 1353
- II 12 WAM 6185 Remainders (states) at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories for the year ending on 28 September 1354
- II 13 WAM 6184 Memoranda (states) compiled at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories for the year ending on 28 September 1355
- II 14 WAM 6198 Memoranda (states) compiled at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories for the year ending on 28 September 1358
- II 15 WAM 6193 Memoranda (states) compiled at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, and the royal manors, for the year ending on 28 September 1359
- II 16 WAM 6188 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, and the royal manors, with states of the obedientiaries, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1363
- II 17 WAM 6171 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors, with states of the obedientiaries, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1364
- II 18 WAM 6195 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, with states of the obedientiaries, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1366
- II 19 WAM 6192 Dockets of accounts for the royal manors at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1366
- II 20 WAM 6187 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, and the royal manors, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1367
- II 21 WAM 6172 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, and the royal manors, with states of the obedientiaries, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1369
- II 22 WAM 9307 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, with states of the obedientiaries, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1370
- II 23 WAM 6148 States of the convent's manors and rectories, with states of the royal manors, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1371
- II 24 WAM 6181 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1375
- II 25 WAM 6178 Dockets of accounts for the royal manors at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1375
- II 26 WAM 6170 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1377
- II 27 WAM 6153 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, and for the royal manors, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1378
- II 28 WAM 6154 and 9301 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, and for the royal manors, with states of the obedientiaries, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1379
About the author
Barbara Harvey is an Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her publications have focused on late medieval social, economic and ecclesiastical history and especially on Westminster Abbey and its estates. They include
Documents llustrating the Rule of Watler de Wenlok, Abbot of Westminster, 1283-1307; Westminster Abbey and its Estates in the Middle Ages; and
Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience, which centres on the lives of monks of Westminster Abbey, and which was joint winner of the Wolfson History Prize in 1993.
Chris Woolgar is Professor of History and Archival Studies at the University of Southampton. He has a long-standing interest in the history of the everyday, especially in late medieval England, in patterns of documentation and in editorial work. His publications include
Household Accounts from Medieval England, The Great Household in Late Medieval England, The Senses in Late Medieval England, Testamentary Records of the English and Welsh Episcopate 1200-1413 and
The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500. He has been the editor of the Journal of Medieval History since 2009.
Summary
In c.1300, the manors of Westminster Abbey were one of the wealthiest monasteries in late medieval England. This book documents the agricultural economy of the Abbey and demonstrates the sophisticated financial and administrative systems the monks employed in a transition from the direct management of their lands, to systems of leaseholds.
