This volume prints all the surviving legible accounts belonging to the abbacy of Godfrey of Crowland. The most important of them are three magnificent sets of enrolled accounts for the years 1300-01, 1307-08 and 1309-10 covering manors assigned to the abbot’s endowment, largely, but not exclusively, in Northamptonshire. These, and the remaining accounts, provide a full picture of estate exploitation at a time when the so-called classical manor, with desmene worked by servile labour, was still in operation. The accounts are extremely detailed, providing a mine of information for scholars. At the same time the vivid incidental information they also contain permits an imaginative insight into life on medieval manors of interest to more general readers.
It is a companion volume to his register which forms part of The White Book of Peterborough, in 2001.
Contents
- Map
- List of Tables
- List of illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Accounts
- 1300-01 (Latin and English, Peterborough and Boroughbury only)
- 1300-01 (remaining manors)
- 1302-03 (Boroughbury only)
- 1303-04 (Peterborough and Boroughbury)
- 1307-08 (all manors)
- 1309-10 (all manors)
- 1311-12 (Peterborough only)
- 1312-13 (Boroughbury only)
- 1314-15 (Boroughbury only)
- 1317-18 (Peterborough only)
- Hundred and honorial court accounts 1306-7, 1307-8, 1309-10
- Appendix 1 Saints’ days and other notable dates in the text
- Appendix 2 Glossary
- Bibliography
- General Index