Elenchus Fontium Historiae Urbanae, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland.

• Superior document: Acta Collegii Historiae Urbanae Series
• Author: Reynolds.
• TeilnehmendeR: den Boer, den.; MacNiocail.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1988.; ©1988.
• Year of Publication: 1988
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Acta Collegii Historiae Urbanae Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (209 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- FOREWORD -- FOREWORD -- Table of Contents -- 1 Ad 604. The Venerable Bede mentions (c. 731) the city of London as an emporium for many nations in the time of Archbishop Augustine -- 2 Ad 685. The Anonymous Life of St. Cuthbert (written between 698 and 705) tells how the praepositus of Carlisle showed the bishop the wall and waterworks built there by the Romans -- 3 845, 16 November. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and Kent, grants to Badonoth, his apparitor, property near Canterbury, including meadowland in the townspeople's meadow -- 4 860-866. Charter given by Ealhhere in which a sale of land at Canterbury is witnessed among others by 'inner burgesses' and by a guild of 'knights' (cniahta) -- 5 884-901. Æthelred, ealdorman of the Mercians, and his wife Æthelflæd declare that they have ordered the building of fortifications (burh) at Worcester. They grant part of the dues payable there to Bishop Wærferth and his church of St. Peter -- 6 888. An endorsement on a charter of 868, which had recorded the sale by Ceolwulf to Eanmund of a piece of land in Canterbury. The endorsement records the subsequent sale of an adjoining piece to Æthelhere and mentions that by law (perhaps a local by-law) two feet had to be left empty (perhaps on the street frontage rather than between houses) to allow water to drip from the roof -- 7 899-924. King Edward the Elder decrees that all trade is to be carried on in towns -- furthermore, in every transaction warrantors are to be produced (Edward 1, 1.1) -- 8 Probably 911-919. 'The Burghal Hidage'. List of fortifications with the number of hides assigned to each of them, followed by an explanation of the number of men required for their maintenance and defence.

9 925-c. 935. Regulations, by King Athelstan, concerning trade, the repair of burh fortifications, and moneyers (II Athelstan 12-14.2) -- 10 Mid 10th and 11th centuries. Efforts by Wulsin (fl. mid 10th century) and Leofstan (d. 1064-1066), abbots of St. Albans Abbey, to stimulate the development of the town of St. Albans, as described in the Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani (13th century) -- 11 959-c. 962. Regulations, by King Edgar, concerning meetings of the assemblies of hundred, buruh and shire (III Edgar 5, 5.1) -- 12 962-963. King Edgar regulates the appointment, number and role of witnesses in commercial transactions, within the burgum and outside (IV Edgar 2a.2-6.2) -- 13 Ad 975-984. A twelfth-century account of the purchase of land at Toft by Brythnot, abbot of Ely, in the presence of the assembled citizens of Cambridge, who say that warrantors are unnecessary for purchases there or at Norwich, Thetford and Ipswich -- 14 Late 10th-early 11th century (possibly 984-985). Report, probably by the Londoners, on tolls and penalties payable at London, with new legislation by King Ethelred about coinage (IV Ethelred 1-9.3) -- 15 Early 11th century. Statement, in the tract known as Episcopus, of the bishop's responsibility for justice both in town law and country law and for weights and burh measures -- 16 1042-1044. Kind Edward informs the bishop, the port-reeve and all the burgesses of London that his men in the guild of English 'knights' (cnihtas) are to have their sake and their soke within burh and without, over their land and their men. Confirming the laws of his predecessors, he promises further benefits and his protection -- 17 1061-1065. Brihtmær of Gracechurch grants to Christchurch, Canterbury, his house and the church of All Hallows, London, to be held after his death and that of his wife and children.

18 Soon after 1066. King William I assures the bishop, the reeve and all the burgesses of London of the continuance of the privileges which they enjoyed in the days of King Edward, grants hereditary rights to them and offers them his protection against wrongdoers -- 19 Ad 1068. Account, written c. 1125 by Orderic Vitalis, of the revolt of Exeter -- 20 1086. A selection from the entries in Domesday Book which concern towns, namely Dover, Canterbury, Southampton, Dorchester, Bridport, Wareham, Shaftesbury, Taunton, Exeter, Oxford, Hereford, Cambridge, Chester, Rhuddlan, Derby, York, Norwich and Bury St. Edmunds -- 21 1088-1107. Robert Fitzhamon grants to his men of Burford the customs enjoyed already by the burgesses of Oxford with a further privilege for visiting traders -- 22 Early 12th century. Customs of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, perhaps referring to the reign of King Henry I though probably recorded later -- 23 1106. Bernard of Neufmarché, with the consent of King Henry I, grants to Battle Abbey (Sussex) among other things the church of St. John the Evangelist in his castrum of Brecon (Wales), the devastated civitas called Carnois, and several burgesses -- 24 1115-1133. Thurstan, archbishop of York, grants to the burgesses of Beverley the same liberties as those already enjoyed by the burgesses of York. King Henry I confirms the grant as liberum burgagium -- 25 1121-1138. Anselm, abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, grants and confirms the customs of Bury St. Edmunds, as claimed by its burgesses -- 26 1124-1153. David I, king of the Scots, grants to his vassal Baldwin the toft which Baldwin holds in Perth, free of all burghal services except for watch within the burgh and work on the burgh wall, adding the right to sell his toft and house in burgage.

27 Not later than 1125. Extracts from the descriptions by William of Malmesbury of (inter alia) the cities of Canterbury, London, Exeter and York -- 28 Probably a few years after 1128. David I, king of the Scots, in a grant of lands and rights to Holyrood Abbey at Edinburgh, includes a burgus and trading privileges for the burgesses and the church -- 29 1130. Extracts from the first surviving annual Exchequer account recording collective payments made and to be made by the citizens of Lincoln and London to the king -- 30 1130, 29 September-1133, August. King Henry I grants privileges to the citizens of London, including the right to hold London and Middlesex at a fixed annual sum and to elect their sheriff and justice -- 31 1141-1153, 24 May. David I, king of the Scots, grants to May Priory the right to sell fish in their port as in Edinburgh -- 32 Ad 1141, 8-9 April. Contemporary account by William of Malmesbury of the council at Winchester, summoned by the bishop of Winchester as papal legate, to elect the Empress Matilda as lady of England, at which representatives of the London commune speak on behalf of the captive King Stephen -- 33 C. 1144. Robert, bishop of St. Andrews, declares that, with the consent of David I, king of the Scots, he has founded a burgus at St. Andrews and has installed Mainard the Fleming as its provost (prefectus) -- 34 1147. The citizens of the commune and the guild merchant of Oxford grant to the abbey of Osney their island of Medley -- 35 1153-1184. William, earl of Warwick, grants various customs to the burgesses of Swansea -- 36 1154-1156. King Henry II grants liberties and free customs to the citizens of London -- 37 1154-1159. King Henry II grants to his 'barons' of Hastings their liberties and customs, including their 'honours' in his court.

38 1154-1168. Record of a plea in the London husting concerning property of the abbey of St. Etienne, Caen -- 39 1155. King Henry II grants liberties and free customs to his burgesses of Bristol -- 40 1155 or 1158. King Henry II confirms and grants liberties and customs, including their guild merchant, to the citizens of Lincoln -- 41 1155-1158 (possibly December 1157). King Henry II announces that he has delivered the city of Lincoln to its citizens at the same annual sum as in the time of King Henry I -- 42 1155-1158. King Henry II grants to the weavers of London their guild, to which all weavers in London and Southwark (then in Surrey) must belong -- 43 1155-1160. King Henry II prohibits any merchant from outside Lincoln, except for those who belong to the guild and pay their dues, from living there in order to dye cloth or sell it retail -- 44 1170. Extracts from the annual Exchequer account for Gloucester, recording the sheriff's payment of the annual sum due from the city of Gloucester, and payments by various burgesses apparently as penalties for forming a commune -- 45 1173-1175. Description by William fitz Stephen of the city of London -- 46 1175. King Henry II confirms the liberties and customs of the Oxford cordwainers, including their own guild -- 47 1180. Extract from the annual Exchequer account, recording the penalties imposed on unlawful guilds in the city of London -- 48 1182, January-March. King Henry II grants to the burgesses of Coventry all the liberties and free customs which Earl Ranulf of Chester (d. 1153) had granted them -- 49 Ad 1182-1198. Relations between the abbey and town of Bury St. Edmunds as described by Jocelin of Brakelond in his Chronicle (completed c. 1202) -- 50 1184. Entries on the annual Exchequer account, showing the Londoners' collective responsibility for royal taxes and the assessment by wards.

51 Probably 1187, 29 November-1189, 6 July. The treatise known as Glanvill explains that a year and a day as a full member of any 'privileged town' frees a nativus from villeinage.