Peterborough Abbey 1086-1310

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Cambridge University Press, May 17, 1973 - Architecture - 208 pages
The operation of the land market is a topic of crucial importance to the student of economic and social history in the Middle Ages. In this book, Dr King uses a wide range of source material to examine the character of the land market on the estates of Peterborough Abbey in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He suggests that some common pattern emerges in the behaviour of those concerned, and offers an original interpretation of certain familiar types of medieval record.
 

Contents

Introduction I
1
The First Two Centuries 9661166
6
The Knights of Peterborough
35
The Development of Freehold
55
The Colonisation of Northamptonshire
70
The Endowment of the Obedientiaries
88
Carte Nativorum
99
The Administration of the Estate
126
Conclusion
168
A The Disafforestation of the Soke
172
B Crops Sown on Northamptonshire Estates
180
Entry Fines
182
Survey of Paston Manor
189
Bibliography
191
Index
201
Copyright

The Organisation of the Estate
140

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