Sherington Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village (Paperback)

List of illustrations; List of tables; List of genealogical tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Beating the bounds; 2. From Roman times to Domesday; 3. The Carun family; 4. The anarchy, Sherington church and Tickford priory; 5. Richard de Carun as a ward of the king; 6. The last siege of Bedford in 1224; 7. The Cockfield family; 8. John de Carun and Elias the Jew; 9. Mr Justice Cave acquires property in Sherington; 10. Martin de Carun and the law; 11. The last of the Caruns; 12. The Fitz John and re-arranged Cockfield manors; 13. The Cave family as lawyers; 14. The land in medieval Sherington; 15. The value of land in medieval Sherington; 16. The two-course system of husbandry in medieval Sherington; 17. The meadows, wood and water-mill in medieval Sherington; 18. The Church and its clergy in the thirteenth century; 19. Sherington in the fourteenth century; 20. Sherington in the fifteenth century; 21. Economic conditions in Sherington under Henry VIII; 22. The battle against enclosure; 23. The leasing of Sherington rectory; 24. The impoverishment of the manorial families; 25. The rise and fall of the yeomanry, 1600?1750; 26. The emergence of non-conformity; 27. Sherington and the civil war; 28. Agrarian economy under the three-field system of tillage; 29. The Turnpike Trusts; 30. Sherington after the Enclosure Award of 1797; Appendices; Index.