Derbyshire introduction
Thorn, Frank; Thorn, Caroline
Domesday; Domesday Book; Great Domesday; Derbyshire; Notes; Phillimore notes
Dataset
- Rights
- Creative Commons Licence: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England and Wales. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
- Description
The introduction discusses the origin, administrative history, and assessment of the county; the county boundary; the administration of the county; the Wapentakes, their reconstruction, rubrication, order, revised name-forms, and boundaries; small Hundreds; Wapentake courts, their links with royal manors, moot-sites, lordship of the Wapentakes; manorial and ecclesiastical organisation; the state of the manuscript for the county; duplicates; borough, castle and Forest; related or 'satellite' texts; the Burton Cartulary, the Burton survey, and other texts; the identification of places; the editorial history of earlier versions of the notes, and the current state of the revision. The introduction has been written for this edition by Caroline and Frank Thorn.
- Publisher
- The University of Hull
- Language
- English
- Identifier
- hull:499