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A register of titles to property in the borough. The recognizance
rolls of Ipswich are a register of titles to property in the
borough and are among the most varied and interesting of the courts
records. They begin in the late thirteenth century and extend, in a
series of filesand leger-books, through to the Victorian age. Their
texts comprise abstracts and copies of private deeds, testaments
proved in the borough court, and grants of common soil. The careful
description of properties, including ownership of neighbouring
tenements, and the naming of parishes, streets, and landmarks,
makes them a source of great historical and topographical interest.
The early part of the series is well preserved, and its continuity
allows us tofollow the fortunes of individuals and of families in
some detail. We can observe in these gifts, bequests, and exchanges
the recruitment of the burghal community and the affiliations of
its members. It also offers a varied picture of the borough court
at work, both as a tribunal and as an administrative office. The
contents of the first twenty-one rolls are presented in an English
paraphrase that takes account of all significant variations in the
originalLatin, and also indicates the clerk's marginal notes and
memoranda.
All the surviving records of the old Corporation, from the first
charter under King John in 1200 to its dissolution in 1835;
particularly rich in medieval legal records, Tudor and Stuart
financial records. Ipswich received its first charter from King
John in 1200; the Corporation records survive from 1255, placing
the borough archive among the earliest in England, antedated only
by Leicester, Shrewsbury, Wallingford, London and Exeter. The
archive is particularly rich in records of the medieval courts,
most notably perhaps those of the Court of Petty Pleas, whose cases
touched almost every aspect of town life, and those of the Petty
Court of Recognizances -in effect a register of deeds furnishing a
detailed record of transactions involving burgage tenements. The
financial records of Treasurer and Chamberlains are particularly
detailed for the Elizabethan and Stuart periods, and muchsocial
history is contained in the records of various town charities. This
catalogue, published to celebrate the 800th anniversary of John's
charter, includes all the surviving records of the old Corporation
down to its dissolution in 1835, thus facilitating access to an
unjustly neglected major source for the history of Suffolk. Also
two contextual essays: The Government of Ipswich from its Origins
to c. 1550 by GEOFFREY MARTIN (former Keeper of the Rolls) and The
Government of Ipswich from c. 1550-1835 by FRANK GRACE (Lecturer,
Suffolk College). Dr DAVID ALLEN is on the staff of the Suffolk
Record Office in Ipswich and editor of the Proceedings of the
Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History.
A major contribution to the history of Parliament, to medieval
English history, and to the study of the English constitution.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW The rolls of parliament were the official
records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of
Edward I (1272-1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509),
after which they were superseded by the journals of thelords, and,
somewhat later, the commons. Chris Given-Wilson is Professor of
Late Medieval History, University of St Andrews
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