The dense and varied map the court records provide of the actions and objectives of this society, and the broad chronological sweep they cover, are used here to explore, in particular, the question of self-gov- ernment in the village. [...] To the staff of the Public Record Office, the British Library, the Cambridgeshire Record Office, Huntingdon, the Library of Peterhouse College, Cam- bridge, the Library of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at Toronto, and the Homer Babbidge Library at the University of Con- necticut warm thanks for allowing me to use their collections. [...] Its antiquity and longevity, and the relative stability of seigneurial demands that sprang from the needs of a monastic community as opposed to the estates of the secular clergy or the nobility, all meant that from these earliest times, Ramsey Abbey, like the other major fenland foundations of the same period, was "leaving its imprint upon the formation of agrarian life" in Huntingdonshire. [...] The presiding officer, and the person responsible for seeing to the making of the record, was the steward of the Abbot of Ramsey. [...] The court supervised the maintenance of tithing groups, adherence to the royal assizes of bread and ale, maintenance of waterways, as well as the preservation of local order, the punishment of minor acts of aggression, and all matters connected with labor services and rents due to the lord.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Tables 9
- Acknowledgments 10
- Map of Upwood and Ellington 11
- Introduction 12
- Chapter 1 Upwood, Ellington, and Their People, 1280–1460 39
- Chapter 2 Systems of Mutual Responsibility 56
- Chapter 3 The Culture of Village Officialdom 115
- Chapter 4 Individualism, Collectivity and Change in the Village: Reinventing Tradition in the Fifteenth Century 173
- Conclusion 239
- Bibliography 245
- Index 260
- A 260
- B 260
- C 260
- D 261
- E 261
- F 261
- G 261
- H 261
- I 262
- J 262
- L 262
- M 262
- N 262
- O 262
- P 263
- R 263
- S 263
- T 264
- V 264
- W 264
