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VOLUME 32

W1093

Information

Author
Cheney, C.R et al
Publisher
BHRS
Printing Date
1951
Edition
1st
Price
£20.00

Description

Contents:

‘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.]

Condition

Slight creasing to printed-card cover (softback) but otherwise as new.

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