The Economic Development of a Norfolk Manor 1086–1565

A case study from 1906 of the development of an agricultural estate from early medieval to Tudor times.

Frances Gardiner Davenport (Author)

9781108016056, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2010

232 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 map
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.35 kg

This highly detailed analysis of the medieval records of Forncett Manor, first published in 1906, is a case study of the development of an agricultural estate from early medieval to Tudor times. The economic system of the manor and the people who depended on it, aristocrats, tenants and serfs, is described and statistics are given where they can be extrapolated from the surviving records. Appendices list and transcribe important sections of the archive, including lists of tenants and financial records, as well as relevant passages of the Domesday Book. Starting from the documentary evidence, Harvard-trained Davenport does not speculate beyond the facts and offers little interpretation. However, she creates a highly instructive case study for medieval economic history that remains a rich source of valuable information for historians of later generations.

Preface
1. An Elizabethan survey and Domesday Book
2. The Demesne, 1270–1307
3. The Demesne, 1376–78
4. The Demesne, 1400–1605
5. The tenants and their land, 1272–1306
7. The tenants and their land, 1400–1575
8. Population
Appendices: 1. MSS. relating to Forncett Manor
2. Abstract of part of the Survey of 1565
3. Entries in Domesday Book relating to the Vill of Forncett
4. Bond tenements of Forncett Manor, 1400–1565
5. Subsidy Roll of Forncett Vill, 1332
6. Landholders in Forncett Vill, and tenants of Forncett Manor, 1565
7. Table of leases, 1401–1500
8. Account roll of the Manor of Forncett, 1272–73
9. Account roll of the Manor of Forncett, 1376–78
10. Court Roll of the Manor of Forncett, 1400
11. Series of conveyances relating to a piece of the Demesne of Forncett Manor
12. Table showing number of conveyances entered in Forncett Court Rolls, 1401–1565
13. Wills of bondmen
14. Bill of Sir Henry Lee against Robert Bolitout and Thomas Lound. Answer of Thomas Lound
Index.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC]