Manorial Bylaws from Northern England

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-85444-087-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 231, 448 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Publications of the Surtees Society

The texts of forty documents laying out rules governing the lives of local communities, the regulation of farming and the exploitation of natural resources in the six northern counties in Tudor and Stuart times.

This volume presents the texts of forty documents spelling out rules and regulations governing local communities in northern England in the late-medieval and early modern centuries. They have been chosen to illustrate the bylaws (or 'pains' as they were termed), laid down and policed by the manor courts and include both articles of enquiry, laying out the matters to be investigated by the courts, and 'pain lists', compilations of a manor's bylaws and the penalties incurred for breaking them. The bylaws formed a body of local law and custom which touched many aspects of daily life, from disorderly behaviour and the obligations owed to those in authority, to the regulation of open-field farming and the management of resources from common land. The documents in this volume derive from manors across the northern counties and include communities in a wide range of landscapes and environments, from open-field villages in the Yorkshire Wolds to hill farming hamlets deep in the Pennines and Lake District fells. They form an important source for the history of local societies, social control and agrarian regulation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Winchester, Angus J L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Abbreviations
Introduction
Editorial Method
Articles of Enquiry
1. Chester Deanery (Du)
2. Fountains Abbey estates (Yorks.)
3. Horton (Nb)
4. Kilham (YE)

5. Windermere (We)
Pain Lists
6. Aglionby, Cumwhinton and Tarraby (Cu)
7. Alston Moor (Cu)
8. Bolton (We)
9. Burley in Wharfedale (YW)
10. Buttercrambe (YN)
11. Castlerigg & Derwentwater (Cu)
12. Cockerham (La)

13. Cononley (YW)
14. Ellenborough (Cu)
15. Fyling (YN)
16. Guisborough (YN)
17. Halton Gill (in Littondale, YW)
18. Huggate (YE)
19. Hutton-in-the-Forest (Cu)
20. Hutton John (Cu)
21. Ingleby Greenhow (YN)
22. Isel (Cu)
23. Kilham (YE)
24. Leathley (YW)
25. Mashamshire forest jury (YN)
26. Middleton, Stubham & Beamsley (YW)
27. Netherwasdale (Cu)
28. Netherwitton (Nb)
29. North Loftus (YN)
30. Ousby (Cu)
31. Outhwaite (in Roeburndale, La)
32. Rastrick (YW)
33. Riccall (YE)
34. Scalby (YN)
35. Speeton (YE)
36. Stainton (YN)
37. Stock (in Bracewell, YW)
38. Strickland Ketel (We)
39. Weardale (Du)
40. Well (YN)
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index to Bylaws
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Winchester, Angus J L
ANGUS WINCHESTER is Emeritus Professor of Local and Landscape History at Lancaster University. His interests in common land have developed over many years, arising originally out of research into the history of upland landscapes in northern England. He was also, the first Director of VCH Cumbria until his retirement from Lancaster University in 2016.