Proby G (1 results)

Folio, Roxburghe half-morocco and maroon boards, title-page printed in red and black, 29 cm, , lxxv, 456 pp, frontispiece plate. This volume contains a complete transcript and translation of all the Ministers' Accounts and Court Rolls of the manor of Elton in the county of Huntingdon which are known to have survived for the period between 27 Nov. 1279, the date of the earliest of them, and Michaelmas 1351. Contents: Frontispiece. Facsimile of portion of Court Roll 22 January 1300; Preface; List of Documents printed; List of Court Rolls; List of Accounts of Reeves; List of Accounts of the Mills; List of later manorial records of Elton not printed in this volume; Glossary of words other than Latin; Synopsis of Introduction; Introduction; Note on the subordinate manor, afterwards known as Hall Fee; Text; Indexes of persons, of places, and of subjects. The main elements of the Introduction are: (1) Scope of the present volume; (2) Nature and source of the documents used; (3) The preparation of the text and translation; (4) The manor; (5) The structure of Elton manor; (6) The manorial officials; (7) The manor house and its buildings; (8) The servants (famuli) of the manor; (9) The visitors (supervenientes and perhendinantes); (10) The methods of cultivation, boon-works, the autumn; (11) The harvest; (12) The stock account; (13) Carts and ploughs; carpenters and smiths; (14) The manorial courts; (15) Illustrations of contact with the outer world and of; the incidence of the 'Black Death'. Earl Spencer's member's copy with his name printed in red in the list of members, and a pencil note 'Spencer received Oct 10th 1946' on the front free endpaper. A printed compliments slip of Granville Proby, the presentor of the book, is bound in. One or two minor scuffs to covers, a little bubbling to the rear board, otherwise an excellent Fine copy.