My own involvement with the use of the court roll in the study of the mediaeval English peasant began ten years ago, while a graduate student under the direction of Professor J. Ambrose Raftis of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. [...] In that year, while receiving financial support from the Kellogg Foundation and an appoint- ment as a Research Associate at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, I was granted a term's leave of absence from teaching by the University of Detroit, enabling me to work on a calendar of the Liber Gersumarum while participating in the establishment of the Regional Data Bank at the Institute, a [...] The text itself begins in the third year of Abbot Thomas and stops in the twenty-second year of Abbot John Stowe.8 But an apparent index of exodus and marriage fines early in the 5 This lack of correspondence between the court rolls and Harley 445 has been indicated in the notes accompanying the calendar. [...] An impression is left of the abbey scribes choosing entries from some original source — now lost — and making their choices rather clumsily at times.14 Whatever may be the final solution to the question of its original condition, the Liber Gersumarum in its present form is a unique collection of information for the student of the Ramsey Abbey estates in particular and of the fifteenth- century Eng [...] I t was not unti l the 1920's that serious attention was again given to this source, with the publication of W. O. Aul t of The Court Rolls of the Abbey of Ramsey and of the Honor of Clare (New Haven, 1928), followed by G. C. Homans, English 10 INTRODUCTION the peasant world.23 A methodology of the court roll is still incomplete,24 but it is already apparent that its use by the historian greatly a
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Introduction 14
- The Liber Gersumarum: Calendar 28
- 3 Thomas Butterwyk (1398-1399) nos. 1-41 30
- 4 Thomas Butterwyk (1399-1400) nos. 42-149 36
- 5 Thomas Butterwyk (1400-1401) nos. 150-260 45
- Nomina Nativorum, nos. 261-287 54
- 6 Thomas Butterwyk (1401-1402) nos. 288-398 60
- 9 Thomas Butterwyk (1404-1405) nos. 399-416 69
- 10 Thomas Butterwyk (1405-1406) nos. 417-531 71
- 11 Thomas Butterwyk (1406-1407) nos. 532-618 80
- 12 Thomas Butterwyk (1407-1408) nos. 619-696 84
- 13 Thomas Butterwyk (1408-1409) nos. 697-777 89
- 14 Thomas Butterwyk (1409-1410) nos. 778-903 94
- 15 Thomas Butterwyk (1410-1411) nos. 904-1015 103
- 16 Thomas Butterwyk (1411-1412) nos. 1016-1099 111
- 17 Thomas Butterwyk (1412-1413) nos. 1100-1170 117
- 18 Thomas Butterwyk (1413-1414) nos. 1171-1274 122
- 19 Thomas Butterwyk (1414-1415) nos. 1275-1339 130
- 20 Thomas Butterwyk (1415-1416) nos. 1340-1411 134
- 21 Thomas Butterwyk (1416-1417) nos. 1412-1528 140
- 22 Thomas Butterwyk (1417-1418) nos. 1529-1608 148
- 23 Thomas Butterwyk (1418-1419) nos. 1609-1695 154
- 1 John Tychemersch (1419-1420) nos. 1696-1771 160
- 2 John Tychemersch (1420-1421) nos. 1772-1859 165
- 3 John Tychemersch (1421-1422) nos. 1860-1933 171
- 4 John Tychemersch (1422-1423) nos. 1934-2034 175
- 5 John Tychemersch (1423-1424) nos. 2035-2124 184
- 6 John Tychemersch (1424-1425) nos. 2125-2221 191
- 7 John Tychemersch (1425-1426) nos. 2222-2292 199
- 8 John Tychemersch (1426-1427) nos. 2293-2378 205
- 9 John Tychemersch (1427-1428) nos. 2379-2439 210
- 10 John Tychemersch (1428-1429) nos. 2440-2500 214
- 11 John Tychemersch (1429-1430) nos. 2501-2576 219
- 12 John Tychemersch (1430-1431) nos. 2577-2611 225
- 13 John Tychemersch (1431-1432) nos. 2612-2701 228
- 14 John Tychemersch (1432-1433) nos. 2702-2757 234
- 15 John Tychemersch (1433-1434) nos. 2758-2854 239
- 1 John Croyland (1434-1435) nos. 2855-2942 246
- 2 John Croyland (1435-1436) nos. 2943-2986 252
- 1 John Stowe (1436-1437) nos. 2987-3031 255
- 2 John Stowe (1437-1438) nos. 3032-3127 259
- 3 John Stowe (1438-1439) nos. 3128-3203 267
- 4 John Stowe (1439-1440) nos. 3204-3319 273
- 5 John Stowe (1440-1441) nos. 3320-3411 284
- 6 John Stowe (1441-1442) nos. 3412-3464 293
- 7 John Stowe (1442-1443) nos. 3465-3525 298
- 8 John Stowe (1443-1444) nos. 3526-3602 303
- 9 John Stowe (1444-1445) nos. 3603-3689 310
- 10 John Stowe (1445-1446) nos. 3690-3765 318
- 11 John Stowe (1446-1447) nos. 3766-3824 325
- 12 John Stowe (1447-1448) nos. 3825-3895 332
- 13 John Stowe (1448-1449) nos. 3896-3943 339
- 14 John Stowe (1449-1450) nos. 3944-4000 344
- 15 John Stowe (1450-1451) nos. 4001-4031 350
- 16 John Stowe (1451-1452) nos. 4032-4115 352
- 17 John Stowe (1452-1453) nos. 4116-4163 360
- 18 John Stowe (1453-1454) nos. 4164-4222 364
- 19 John Stowe (1454-1455) nos. 4223-4270 369
- 20 John Stowe (1455-1456) nos. 4271-4307 374
- 21 John Stowe (1456-1457) nos. 4308-4322 378
- 22 John Stowe (1457-1458) nos. 4323-4372 379
- Appendix 1 386
- Appendix 2 387
- Bibliography 388
- Index Locorum 390
- A 390
- B 390
- C 390
- D 391
- E 391
- F 391
- G 391
- H 392
- J 392
- K 392
- L 392
- M 393
- N 393
- O 393
- P 393
- R 393
- S 393
- T 394
- U 394
- W 394
- Y 395
- Index Personarum 396
- A 396
- B 398
- C 407
- D 413
- E 415
- F 417
- G 420
- H 423
- I 429
- J 429
- K 430
- L 431
- M 433
- N 436
- O 437
- P 438
- Q 442
- R 442
- S 445
- T 452
- U 454
- V 454
- W 454
- Y 461
- Index Rerum 462
- A 462
- B 462
- C 462
- D 463
- E 463
- F 464
- H 464
- I 464
- L 464
- M 464
- O 465
- P 465
- R 465
- T 465
- W 466