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The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 2 (Hardcover)
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The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 2 (Hardcover)
Series: Records of Social and Economic History, 58
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Westminster Abbey was one of the wealthiest and most influential
monastic houses in medieval England: c.1300 it held some 38,000
acres, largely in the Home Counties and West Midlands, and its
revenues at the Dissolution exceeded GBP2,800 p.a. These assets
supported a complement of 50 to 60 monks in the fourteenth century.
This volume publishes 75 documents providing overviews ('states')
of the Westminster estate and its revenues, as administered by the
abbot and convent separately between c.1300 and 1422. The states
provided crucial information at a period of great social and
economic change either side of the Black Death, assisting in
decisions about farming estates directly or leasing them - and to
historians today they provide rich evidence of the agricultural
economy of medieval England, the systems of provisioning
monasteries, and the men who shaped them. The states are of two
types. The first gives estimates of corn, stock and cash on the
manors, made partway through the financial year - this is unusual
information to survive across substantial parts of an estate. The
second group has little parallel: summarising the manorial accounts
across either the abbot's or the convent's portion of the lands,
the states add information about the management of the estate, its
value, arrears and so on. In this edition, the Latin text is given
of the accounts up to 1375, after which the material is presented
in calendared form. The texts are supplemented by a word list and
glossary, and an appendix on the abbot's estate officials. Part 2
completes the publication of the documentation for the convent's
estates, with the states and dockets from 1352 to 1415. It includes
the Bibliography and the Index to both volumes.
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