Description | Includes the following essays: The escheator's general inquest: the enforcement of royal lordship in the late fourteenth century by Scott Waugh; A working draft of the statue of Acton Burnell (1283) by Paul Brand; The struggle to control the Peak: an unknown letter patent from January 1217 by David Carpenter; Maps of the world in the medieval English royal wardrobe by P D A Harvey; Edward I and the Knights of the Round Table by Marc Morris; The road to Boroughbridge: the civil war of 1321-2 in the ancient petitions by W Mark Ormrod; the wills of Godfrey and Henry of Helhoughton (1270 and 1274) by Nicholas Vincent; Publishing the Public Records: 1800-2007 by Aidan Lawes; The impact of the loss of Normandy on the Enlgish Exchequer: the Pipe Roll evidence by Nick Barratt; St Oswald's Priory, Nostell v Stanley: the common pleas of Lancaster, the Crown , and the politics of the northwest in 1506 by Sean Cunningham; The action of Aiel and the later thirteenth century Eyre Rolls by Adrian Jobson; 'For Whom the Bell Tolls': the building of Morley church tower by Maureen Jurkowski; 'To their grete hurte and finall destruction': Lord Welle's attacks on Spalding and Pinchbeck, 1449-50 by Jonathan Mackma; Was Wales 'A Joy for Indulgent, or Greedy, English Kings or Lords'? A re-evaluation of the subsidies granted to Richard II in Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire in 1393 by Helen Watt; David Crook - a memoir by Vanessa Carr. |