The Making of King's Lynn

A Documentary Survey

Dorothy M Owen editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:15th Nov '84

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Lynn was a 'new' port of the late eleventh century, founded on the estates of the Bishop of Norwich. This volume includes transcripts or summaries of most of the documents available in original charters, cartularies, rentals, bede-rolls and the administrative records of the borough, for a study of the origin and topography of the town, and this is discussed and interpreted in the introduction. The scope of the volume also extends to evidence available for the religious, social and economic life of the town. It draws on gild statutes, poll-tax lists, customs accounts and toll lists, the court-rolls of the Bishop's liberty and a town-clerk's memorandum book. The introduction discusses the nature and extent of these courses and provides a brief analysis of most aspects of the medieval town.

ISBN: 9780197260272

Dimensions: 242mm x 165mm x 35mm

Weight: 957g

524 pages