The Economic Development of a Norfolk Manor 10861565 [Paperback]

A case study from 1906 of the development of an agricultural estate from early medieval to Tudor times.This 1906 history of a medieval agricultural estate is full of valuable factual information about the rural economy in England. The manor estate itself and the people who depended on it, aristocrats, tenants and serfs, are described in detail, with many appendices providing transcriptions of the most interesting surviving records.This 1906 history of a medieval agricultural estate is full of valuable factual information about the rural economy in England. The manor estate itself and the people who depended on it, aristocrats, tenants and serfs, are described in detail, with many appendices providing transcriptions of the most interesting surviving records.This highly detailed analysis of the medieval records of Forncett Manor, first published in 1906, is a case study of the development of an agricultural estate from early medieval to Tudor times. The economic system of the manor and the people who depended on it, aristocrats, tenants and serfs, is described and statistics are given where they can be extrapolated from the surviving records. Appendices list and transcribe important sections of the archive, including lists of tenants and financial records, as well as relevant passages of the Domesday Book. Starting from the documentary evidence, Harvard-trained Davenport does not speculate beyond the facts and offers little interpretation. However, she creates a highly instructive case study for medieval economic history that remains a rich source of valuable information for historians of later generations.Preface; 1. An Elizabethan survey and Domesday Book; 2. The Demesne, 12701307; 3. The Demesne, 137678; 4. The Demesne, 14001605; 5. The tenants and their land, 12721306; 7. The tenants and their land, 14001575; 8. Population; Appendices: 1. MSS. relating to Forncett Manor; 2. Abstract of part of the Survey of 1565; 3. Entries in Domesday Book relating to the Vil³&