Description
Contains surveys for the whole estate made in the reigns of Henry I and Henry II, 13th-century custumals for Minchinhampton, Avening, and Felsted, and 26 charters and leases, some of which relate to property in London. They provide valuable evidence of social conditions and changing methods of estate exploitation, printed for the first time.
a well-planned and executed edition, and makes a major contribution to the study of the economic organisation of Benedictine abbeys in the post-Conquest era