Description
Book SynopsisFirst full edition of a crucial source for knowledge of the period.The eyre roll is a major source of information about medieval life, ranging from local courts and land tenure through town customs and the status of women to general neighbourliness. This is especially important for Northumberland, where constant border raiding was detrimental to the accumulation of local records. The survival of the Northumberland Eyre Roll for 1293, recording over eleven hundred law suits, provides a rare glimpse of the county (togetherwith information on Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland) on the eve of the outbreak of the Anglo-Scottish wars; as only brief extracts from the roll have been published previously, this full edition will be warmly welcomed. Thetext is accompanied by notes and a subject index providing a full guide to topics of special interest. CONSTANCE FRASER is a retired lecturer.
Trade ReviewThere is much here for the social and economic historian. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *
The amount of work which goes into the production of so long a translated and indexed text is prodigious, and we are all much in Dr Fraser's debt. * NORTHERN HISTORY *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Pleas of juries and assizes Pleas of various counties Pleas of quo warranto and ragman Essoins Pleas Roll of attorneys and pledges The mayorality of Newcastle upon Tyne Fines and announcements Index
