Some Spalding priory vagabonds of the twelve-sixties

Historical Research

Volumn 73, Issue 180, 2000, Pages 93-104

  Jones, E D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1111/1468-2281.00097     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. P. R. Hyams, Kings, Lords and Peasants in Medieval England: the Common Law of Villeinage in the 12th and 13th Centuries (Oxford, 1980), pp. 31-2
2. Amongst the copious literature on this subject, see R. H. Hilton, The Decline oj Serfdom in Medieval England (1969), pp. 32-5
3. J. A. Raftis, Tenure and Mobility: Studies in the Social History of the Mediaeval English Village (Toronto, 1964)
4. and Warboys: 200 Years in the Life of an English Mediaeval Village (Toronto, 1974)
5. Z. Razi, Life, Marriage and Death in a Medieval Parish: Economy and Demography in Halesowen, 1270-1400 (Cambridge, 1980), pp. 117-24
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7. R. S. Gottfried, 'Bury St. Edmunds and the populations of late medieval English towns, 1270-15 30', Jour. British Studies, XX (1980), 28-30
8. E. D.Jones, Villein mobility in the later middle ages', Nottingham Medieval Studies, xxxvi (1992), 151-66
9. Jones, 'Villein mobility', pp. 156-7
10. For different opinions on the significance and meaning of these censuses, see H. E. Hallam, 'Some 13th-century censuses', Econ. Hist. Rev., 2nd ser., x (1957-8), 340-61
11. J. C. Russell, 'Demographic limitations of the Spalding serf lists', ibid., XV (1962-3), 138-44
12. H. E. Hallam, 'Further observations on the Spalding serf lists', ibid., xvi (1963-4), 338-50
13. e siècles', Annales, Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations, xxxviii (1983), 120-3
14. E. D.Jones, 'Death by document: a reappraisal of Spalding priory's census evidence for the 1260s', Nottingham Medieval Studies, xxxix (1995), 54-69
15. E. D. Jones, 'Going round in circles: some new evidence for population in the later middle ages', Jour. Medieval Hist., xv (1989), 339
16. See E. D. Jones, 'The exploitation of its serfs by Spalding priory before the Black Death', in Nottingham Mediaeval Studies, 43 (1999), pp. 126-51
17. Hallam, 'Some 13th-century censuses', pp. 356-7
18. H. E. Hallam, 'Population density in the medieval fenland', Econ. Hist. Rev., 2nd ser., xiv (1961), 71-81
19. idem, 'Some 13th-century censuses', pp. 340-1
20. E. D. Jones, 'Some economic dealings of Prior John the almoner of Spalding, 1253-74', Lina. Archaeol. and Hist., xii (1977), 42
21. B. M. S. Campbell, 'Population pressure, inheritance, and the land market in a 14th-century peasant community', in Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle, ed. R. M. Smith (Cambridge, 1984), pp. 102-7
22. idem, 'Agricultural progress in medieval England: some evidence from eastern Norfolk', Earn. Hist. Rev., 2nd ser., xxxvi (1983), 26-46
23. Obviously, the priory would have tried to ensure that such a situation would not arise, as it did with a wealthy heiress in 1380-1 (see E. D.Jones, 'The medieval merchet: a late contribution to the debate', Medieval Hist., ii, no. 3 (1992), 32-3)
24. Jones, 'Some economic dealings', p. 41
25. idem, 'Exploitation of its serfs', pp. 126-51
26. Merchet numbers in the 1280s were very low, those of husbands for single females amounting to 26s 8d, £2, 10s and 6s 8d (see also E. D. Jones, The Spalding priory merchet evidence from the 1250s to the 1470s', Jour. Medieval Hist., xxiv (1998), 157)
27. MR fo. 218. Only a fraction of marriages was recorded by merchets, but Elena could have been expected to have paid a large sum and this would more likely have been noted (see Jones, 'Spalding priory merchet evidence', pp. 164-5)
28. For some general comments here, see J. L. Bolton, The Medieval English Economy, 1150-1500 (1980), pp. 218-20, 237-42
29. J. Hatcher, Rural Economy and Society in the Duchy of Cornwall, 1300-1500 (1970), p. 221
30. Raftis, Tenure and Mobility, pp. 139-52