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Blythburgh Priory Cartulary Part One
Author:  Christopher Harper-Bill
Published:  1980
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

The priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Blythburgh was one of the earliest of the many houses of Augustinian canons established in the diocese of Norwich; the beginnings of conventual life most likely date from the mid-12th century.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15128-1

Price:  £25.00





Blythburgh Priory Cartulary Part Two
Author:  Christopher Harper-Bill
Published:  1981
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Domesday Book records Blythburgh as a prosperous royal town with an exceptionally well-endowed church. Its priory, the Blessed Virgin Mary, was one of the earliest of the many houses of Augustinian canons established in the diocese of Norwich in the 12th and early 13th centuries.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15152-6

Price:  £25.00





Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. Copyhold Documents
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

A collection of 51 copyhold documents (surrenders of land & property). These original documents, dated 1803 to 1856 relate to the transfer of land and property in the Manor Court.    

Price:  £15.11





Guilds and the Parish Community in Late Medieval East Anglia c. 1470-1550
Author:  Ken Farnhill
Published:  2001
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

The parish and the guild were the two poles round which social and religious life revolved in late medieval England. This study, drawing freely on East Anglian records, shows how influential they were in the lives of their communities in the years before the break with Rome - and provides an implicit commentary on the impact of the Henrician Reformation at parish level. The records of many of the guilds (or fraternities) of East Anglia in the years 1470-1550 are examined for evidence of their form, function and popularity; the spread of fraternities across East Anglia, the size of individual guilds, types of member, and the benefits of guild membership are all studied in detail. The social and religious functions of the fraternities are then compared with the parish, through a study of the records of two Norfolk market towns (Wymondham and Swaffham) and two Suffolk villages (Bardwell and Cratfield). A final chapter studies the fortunes of the guilds during the early years of the Reformation, up to their dissolution in 1548. KEN FARNHILL is research associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-903-15305-5

Price:  £55.00





Norfolk 1873 Return of Owners of Land
Published:  1873
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

Lists every person in the county who owned 1 acre of land or more, with name, place, extent of land and its value.    

Price:  £8.94





Norfolk Poll Book 1768
Published:  1768
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

Lists all the people in the whole of Norfolk who voted in the general election in 1768. (To be eligible to vote, a person had to be a freeholder, i.e. owning a house or a plot of land). The book is divided into the hundreds of Norfolk, and then the towns and villages within each. A superb source of early family history information.    

Price:  £9.79





Norwich Poll Book for 1818
Published:  1818
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

A very rare resource indeed, this contains the names of those people in Norwich who voted in the General Election of 1818.    

Price:  £9.79





The Register of William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich 1344-1355: I
Author:  Phyllis E. Pobst
Published:  1996
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

This is the first Norwich episcopal register to be published. The two counties of the Norwich diocese, Norfolk and Suffolk, were more densely populated than most of medieval England, with nearly 1300 parishes, some one seventh ofthe national total. Its period covers the fateful progress of the Black Death in 1349, showing its full effects; also of particular interest is Bishop Bateman's foundation of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and the editor's identification of many of the non-surviving churches in the diocese. Dr Pobst's introduction demonstrates the unusual character of the early Norwich registers, and traces the rise of Bateman to prominence in the Anglo-French negotations in theopening years of the Hundred Years War. Dr PHYLLIS E. POBST is Assistant Professor of History at Arkansas State University.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-907-23954-3

Price:  £30.00





The Register of William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich 1344-55: II
Author:  Phyllis E. Pobst
Published:  2000
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

This volume completes the Bateman register, the first of the Norwich registers to be published. Containing the later half of the calendar of institutions, it is unusual for the organisation, clarity and state of completeness of its records, which paint a dramatic picture of the impact of the Black Death on East Anglia. Scholars and students will also welcome the appendices dealing with diocesan administrators and the religious houses and hospitals of Norfolk and Suffolk, as well as indices for both volumes.
PHYLLIS E. POBST is Assistant Professor of History at Arkansas State University.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-907-23960-4

Price:  £25.00




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