Harrold Priory: a twelfth century dispute; and other artilces

Edited by C. R. Cheney, Earl of Cardigan, C. E. Freeman, Joyce Godber, F. B. Stitt

Ebook (VitalSource) - £19.99

Publication date:

01 January 1952

Length of book:

126 pages

Publisher

Bedfordshire Historical Record Society

Dimensions:

234x156mm

ISBN-13: 9781800107205

Harrold Priory: a twelfth century dispute; and other artilces

‘Harrold priory: a twelfth century dispute,’ by C. R. Cheney [Latin texts of nineteen of the documents in a law suit about the patronage of Stevington church, with an introduction.  The documents cover the period from the mid-twelfth century to 1206.] ‘Roll of Bedfordshire supervisors of the peace, 1314,’ by Joyce Godber [Latin text with brief summaries in English of presentments and plaints from the Bedfordshire hundreds before the supervisors of the peace (forerunners of justices of the peace), with introduction] ‘A Kempston estate in 1341,’ by F. B. Stitt [Latin text of the extent of the manor, identified as Kempston Greys alias Hastingsbury, with introduction]
‘Elizabethan inventories,’ by C. E. Freeman [abstracts of fifteen inventories made between 1562 and 1591, with introduction]
‘Domestic expenses of a nobleman’s household, 1678,’ by the Earl of Cardigan [An extract from the analysis of expenditure kept by Simon Urlin for the Ampthill estates of Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury.]