Sherington Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village

This 1965 study examines the feudal and economic development of a village from Norman times to the nineteenth century.

A. C. Chibnall (Author)

9780521158268, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 March 2012

336 pages
24.6 x 18.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.6 kg

First published in 1965, this book is a study of the feudal and economic development of a village from Norman times to the nineteenth century. Dr Chibnall has reconstructed the history of Sherington in north Buckinghamshire from little-known documents in the Public Records Office together with local and private records. After introductory chapters on the pre-Norman period Dr Chibnall gives a chronological account of the village's development. Some of the topics discussed are furlong names, the Domesday return, the impoverishment of the manorial families in late Tudor times, the yeomanry, and the effects on the village's economy of enclosure in neighbouring villages. Dr Chibnall's use of his various sources gives a closely integrated and continuous history of an English village which will be a model for social, agricultural and economic historians.

List of illustrations
List of tables
List of genealogical tables
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Beating the bounds
2. From Roman times to Domesday
3. The Carun family
4. The anarchy, Sherington church and Tickford priory
5. Richard de Carun as a ward of the king
6. The last siege of Bedford in 1224
7. The Cockfield family
8. John de Carun and Elias the Jew
9. Mr Justice Cave acquires property in Sherington
10. Martin de Carun and the law
11. The last of the Caruns
12. The Fitz John and re-arranged Cockfield manors
13. The Cave family as lawyers
14. The land in medieval Sherington
15. The value of land in medieval Sherington
16. The two-course system of husbandry in medieval Sherington
17. The meadows, wood and water-mill in medieval Sherington
18. The Church and its clergy in the thirteenth century
19. Sherington in the fourteenth century
20. Sherington in the fifteenth century
21. Economic conditions in Sherington under Henry VIII
22. The battle against enclosure
23. The leasing of Sherington rectory
24. The impoverishment of the manorial families
25. The rise and fall of the yeomanry, 1600–1750
26. The emergence of non-conformity
27. Sherington and the civil war
28. Agrarian economy under the three-field system of tillage
29. The Turnpike Trusts
30. Sherington after the Enclosure Award of 1797
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: History [HB]