The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 1

by Harvey, Barbara; Woolgar, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780197266625
• ISBN10: 0197266622
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-04-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Barbara Harvey, Emeritus Fellow, University of Oxford,Christopher Woolgar, Professor of History and Archival Studies, University of Southampton

Barbara Harvey is an Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her publications have focused on late medieval social, economic and ecclesiastical history and especially on Westminster Abbey and its estates. They include Documents llustrating the Rule of Watler de Wenlok, Abbot of Westminster, 1283-1307; Westminster Abbey and its Estates in the Middle Ages; and Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience, which centres on the lives of monks of Westminster Abbey, and which was joint winner of the Wolfson History Prize in 1993.


Chris Woolgar is Professor of History and Archival Studies at the University of Southampton. He has a long-standing interest in the history of the everyday, especially in late medieval England, in patterns of documentation and in editorial work. His publications include Household Accounts from Medieval England, The Great Household in Late Medieval England, The Senses in Late Medieval England, Testamentary Records of the English and Welsh Episcopate 1200-1413 and The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500. He has been the editor of the Journal of Medieval History since 2009.

Table of Contents

Editorial Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Editorial Conventions, Weights and Measures
Part 1
Introduction
Method of Editing
Word List and Glossary
TEXTS: THE ABBOT'S ESTATES
I 1 WAM 6189 Memoranda compiled at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions for the year ending on 28 September 1348
I 2A and B WAM 6180 Memoranda compiled at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions for the year ending on 28 September 1349
I 3 WAM 24408 States of the abbot's manors and portions in the Western Parts for the period 29 September 1349 to 24 June 1350
I 4 WAM 6183 Remainders and other memoranda at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions for the year ending on 28 September 1356
I 5 WAM 6191 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1363 96
I 6 WAM 6197 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1365
I 7 WAM 6196 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1367
I 8 WAM 6174 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1368
I 9 WAM 6186 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1371
I 10 WAM 6179 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1372
I 11 WAM 6182 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1374
I 12 WAM 6177 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1375
I 13 WAM 6149 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1377
14 WAM 6169 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1379
I 15A and B WAM 6152 States of the abbot's manors and portions held at views at Easter 1380 and on 25 and 26 March 1381
I 16 WAM 6163 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1382
I 17 WAM 6147 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1383
I 18 WAM 6158 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1386
I 19 WAM 6165 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1388
I 20 WAM 9304 States of the abbot's manors and portions in the Western Parts at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1393
I 21 WAM 6139 States of the abbot's manors and portions in the Eastern Parts at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1397
I 22 WAM 6159 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1398
I 23 WAM 6161 Dockets of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1399
I 24 WAM 6125 Dockets of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions in the Western Parts at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1422
Appendix. The abbot's manorial and estate officials
TEXTS: THE CONVENT'S ESTATES
II 1 WAM 23630 View of the states of the convent's royal manors, c.25 March 1300
II 2 WAM 23630 View of the states of the convent's manors assigned to the pittancer, c.25 March 1300
II 3 WAM 23640 View of the states of the convent's royal manors, c.25 March 1305
II 4 WAM 9298 View of the states of the convent's manors, December 1312
II 5 WAM 23646 View of the states of the convent's royal manors, January 1318
II 6 WAM 9289, rot. 3 View of the states of the convent's manors, November-December 1321
II 7 WAM 9289, rot. 5 View of the states of the convent's manors, November-December 1322
II 8 WAM 9289, rots. 1, 2 and 4 View of the states of the convent's manors, November-December 1323
II 9 WAM 23668 View of the royal manors, December 1344