Charters and custumals of the Abbey of Holy Trinity Caen

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Charters and custumals of the Abbey of Holy Trinity Caen

edited by Marjorie Chibnall

(Records of social and economic history, New series ; 5)

Published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press, c1982

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Charters and surveys in Latin

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The English estates of the Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen included manors situated in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, East Anglia, and Wiltshire, which differed greatly in economic organisation and social structure. Among the records of estate administration are surveys describing the rents and services of tenants, the resources of the demesne, and the advance of cultivation in woodland and waste. The present volume contains surveys for the whole estate made in the reigns of Henry I and Henry II, thirteenth century custumals for Minchinhampton, Avening, and Felsted, and twenty-six charters and leases, some of which relate to property in London. They provide valuable evidence of social conditions and changing methods of estate exploitation, and are printed for the first time.

Table of Contents

  • Introductory Note
  • Preface
  • Original Sources
  • Abbreviated References
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • i. The cartularies
  • ii. The English properties
  • iii. The English surveys and charters
  • iv. The administration of the English property
  • v. The demesne economy
  • vi. Note on the editing
  • Charters
  • Surveys
  • First series:
  • Felsted A
  • Pinbury A
  • Tarrant A
  • Minchinhampton A
  • Horsted A
  • 'Dineslai' A
  • Avening A
  • Second series:
  • Depredations of Simon of Felsted
  • Felsted B
  • Tilshead B
  • Avening B
  • Horstead B
  • Destruction of woods in Avening and Minchinhampton
  • Minchinhampton B
  • Pinbury B
  • Third series:
  • Avening C
  • Minchinhampton C
  • Pinbury C
  • Minchinhampton D
  • Avening D
  • Felsted D, collated with Felsted E
  • Minchinhampton E
  • Appendix: Early abbesses of Caen
  • Glossary
  • Index of persons and places
  • Index of subjects

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