Liberties and Communities in Medieval England : Collected Studies in Local Administration and Topography (Paperback)

Prefatory note; Introduction: in defence of the study of local history; 1. The origin of the Borough of Cambridge; 2. The early burgesses of Cambridge in relation to the surrounding country-side; 3. Cambridgeshire sheriffs in the thirteenth century; 4. Suitors and scabani; 5. Manerium cum hundredo: the hundred and the hundredal manor; 6. Early groups of hundreds; 7. The hundred outside the north gate of Oxford; 8. Pedigrees of villeins and freemen in the thirteenth century; 9. The marshalsy of the Eyre; 10. The general eyres of 1329?30; 11. Some early inquests before custodes pacis; 12. The quo warranto proceedings under Edward I; 13. The king's government as administered by the greater abbots of East Anglia; 14. The decline and fall of English feudalism; 15. The relation of English members of parliament to their constituencies in the fourteenth century; 16. The community of the shire and the payment of its representatives in parliament; Index of subjects; Index of persons and places.