Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 11, The Percy Fee

Published in thirteen volumes (1914–65), this extensive and highly regarded series contains charters and deeds from pre-thirteenth-century Yorkshire.

William Farrer (Edited by), Charles Travis Clay (Edited by)

9781108058346, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 March 2013

496 pages, 16 b/w illus.
24.4 x 17 x 2.5 cm, 0.78 kg

This thirteen-volume series, which first appeared between 1914 and 1965, is an extensive collection of the pre-thirteenth-century charters and related records of Yorkshire, which had previously remained largely unpublished. The first three volumes were edited by William Farrer (1861–1924), after whose death Charles Travis Clay (1885–1978) took up the task. The series was well respected for the quality of Farrer's editing, which was surpassed only by that of Clay in the later volumes. Volume 11 (1963) is devoted to the Percy fee and aims to be a survey of the land which constituted the knights' fees held by William de Percy II in 1166. The Latin texts presented here are accompanied by English notes and discussion of points of interest. The volume also contains facsimile plates of select documents as well as detailed indexes.

Introduction
1. The Percy family
2. The lands of the Percy fee
3. Charters of the lords of the fee
4. Charters relating to the knights' fees
5. Charters relating to the demesne lands
6. Charters relating to other tenancies in chief
Index of sources
Index of persons and places
Subject index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]