Huntingdonshire introduction
Thorn, Caroline; Thorn, Frank
Domesday; Domesday Book; Great Domesday; Huntingdonshire; 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 geography and history of the county; the county boundary; Hidage; the Hundreds, their names, arrangements, boundaries, lordship, moot-sites, courts, and later Hundreds; the administration of the county; manorial and ecclesiastical organisation; the state of the manuscript for the county; amendments to the text; the Declarations; Lordship land; the rubrication of the Hundreds, Hundred and Vill order, borough and castle; related or 'satellite' texts; the "Inquisitio Eliensis" (Ely Enquiry); 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:507