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Charters of the Vicars Choral of York Minster II
Author:
Nigel J. Tringham
Published:
2002
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This second volume of documents from the extensive medieval archive of the vicars choral of York Minster provides an edition of charters from the earlier 13th century onwards relating to the vicars' property in Yorkshire (the first volume having concentrated on their property in the city of York), together with texts describing the process by which four parish churches (one of them in Hampshire) were appropriated to the vicars in the 14th and 15th centuries. The latter documents are especially detailed, and include grants of advowson, archiepiscopal confirmations consequent on inquiries (with witnesses testifying on the vicars' poverty in 1332 following the disruption caused by Scottish invasions and in 1351 after the Black Death), descriptions of the manner in which the churches were physically handed over, and ordinations of vicarages. Drawing also on the vicars' financial accounts, the introduction to the volume sets the acquisition of both city and Yorkshire property in the context of the vicars' fluctuating economic fortune, which reflected on general changes in urban prosperity and more specifically impinged on the vicars' ability to maintain a common life. The charters relate to the Vicars' property in Yorkshire, and to their holdings of appropriated churches (including the church of Nether Wallop in Hampshire). The editor's introduction examines the reasons for the Vicars' acquisitions, and places them in their economic context.
NIGEL TRINGHAM is lecturer in history, University of Keele.
hardback
ISBN 978-0-902-12292-5
Price:
£40.00
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Feet of Fines for the County of York from 1314 to 1326
Author:
Michael Roper
Published:
2006
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Feet of fines are a major source for genealogy and local history. The fine was originally an agreement made by licence of the court between parties to a law suit, but by 1314 it had become a convenient and secure means of conveying a freehold estate, establishing or breaking an entail, establishing a tenancy for life or providing for the remainder of an estate held in dower. The text of the fine was written three times on a piece of parchment with one copy running across the foot and the other two, head to head, at right angles to it. The parchment was then cut to separate the three copies, the two indentures being handed to the parties, while the `foot of fine' was retained asthe record of the court. This volume summarises 668 fines relating to Yorkshire for the years 1314-1326, including a significantly increased number for 1319-1320 and 1322-1324, when the Court of Common Pleas sat at York during Edward II's Scottish campaigns. The topographical and chronological arrangement and standard format of fines, relatively easy to search, makes them of special value to family and local historians.
hardback
ISBN 978-1-903-56450-9
Price:
£40.00
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Northern Petitions illustrative of life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the fourteenth century
Author:
C.M. Fraser
Published:
1981
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The documents provide illustrations of the practical difficulties of life in the north of England during the fourteenth century.' Each section has a short historical introduction and each petition, in French, is preceded by a calendar of its contents and followed by its approximate date and an editorial comment on its relation to other known material. Areas covered include trade, defence, compensation, war damage, franchises, legal petitions, financial petitions, clerical petitions etc.. See volume 176.
hardback
ISBN 978-0-854-44041-2
Price:
£25.00
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The Bolton Priory Compotus 1286-1325
Author:
Ian Kershaw
Published:
2001
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Most knowledge of medieval monastic economy in England is drawn from the estates of large and wealthy Benedictine establishments in the midlands and south. Bolton Priory was by contrast an Augustinian priory in the Yorkshire dales, modest in size, poorly endowed, located in an unyielding farming region, and faced with daunting financial problems. The Compotus, a unique thousand-page book of the accounts of the Priory, provides comprehensive and rich details of all aspects of its affairs. The Priory's dealings with Italian wool-merchants (to whom it owed heavy debts), the build-up of its estate, the running of its granges, the patterns of household food consumption, and the devastating impact of agricultural crisis compounded by damage inflicted by marauding Scottish raiders, are all fully documented. IAN KERSHAW is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield; DAVID M. SMITH is directorof the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York.
hardback
ISBN 978-0-902-12293-2
Price:
£50.00
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The Cartulary of Byland Abbey
Author:
Janet Burton
Published:
2004
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The Cistercian community that finally settled at New Byland in Yorkshire had a turbulent start, fighting and feuding with neighbours, but after 1177 a more settled period followed, and Byland grew to enjoy considerable prosperity through the lands it acquired in the North Riding of Yorkshire, Westmorland, and in the south of Yorkshire where, with Rievaulx Abbey, Byland was instrumental in the development of iron mining. In the early years of the fifteenthcentury the monks of Byland compiled a cartulary, containing copies of their muniments. The current volume contains a full English calendar of the cartulary, with detailed notes on the documents. The cartulary copies are discussedin relation to the considerable number of original charters surviving from Byland, and antiquarian collections that contain copies of Byland documents no longer extant. The Introduction provides a detailed study of Byland's estates and economic activity, as well as its patrons and benefactors.
JANET BURTON is Reader in Medieval History, University of Wales Lampeter.
hardback
ISBN 978-0-854-44063-4
Price:
£50.00
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The Register of William Greenfield, Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315. Part IV
Author:
William Brown
Published:
1937
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Sections of the register relating to the archdeaconries of Nottingham and Richmond and, for the first six years of Greenfield's episcopate, the miscellaneous section headed Intrinseca Camere, dealing mainly with financial transactions, but containing also the long and important collection of documents which relate to the trial of the English Templars: vol. I, folios 226-325, vol. ii, folios 166-229. Mainly Latin with some marginal notes and calendaring inEnglish. See volumes 145,149, 151, 153.
hardback
ISBN 978-0-854-44026-9
Price:
£25.00
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