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The Court Rolls of Walsham le Willows, 1351-1399 (Hardcover)
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The Court Rolls of Walsham le Willows, 1351-1399 (Hardcover)
Series: Suffolk Records Society
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Detailed evidence of the workings of local administration and
justice in the fourteenth century. The court rolls of the two
manors of Walsham le Willows provide detailed evidence of the
workings of local administration and justice in the fourteenth
century, and were themselves working documents designed to be
accessible to all. As Ray Lock says of the documents edited in the
first volume, 'they protected the interest of the ordinary man and
woman as well as that of the lord of the manor.' This second volume
completes the transcription of all surviving court rolls for the
fourteenth century manors of Walsham le Willows, covering the
proceedings of ninety-nine courts after the Black Death had
tragically reduced the local population. Serious difficulties still
had to be overcome: for example, two successive reeves of Walsham
manor were heavily fined for gross dereliction of duty, and in 1353
a large number of tenants refused to perform services for their
lord. In general, however, these rolls give ample evidence of
increased prosperity as land-holdings grew in size, and as the land
and labour markets quickly stabilised. RAY LOCK is a retired civil
servant who has become immersed in the study of local history since
his move to Suffolk. He edited the first volume of Walsham le
Willows court rolls for the Suffolk Records Society (published in
1998), and has written on the local effects of the Black Death in
the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and
History.
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