Abstracts of the Charters and Other Documents Contained in the Chartulary of the Priory of Bridlington: In the East Riding of the County of York (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

W. T. Lancaster

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0265353505 ISBN 13: 9780265353509

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Unlock a window into Bridlington’s medieval world with this scholarly chartulary edition.

This volume gathers abstracts of charters and related documents from the priory’s chartulary, offering precise, readable summaries suitable for students and researchers of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire history. The editor explains methods, notes manuscript details, and provides modern place names to help identification.

The text presents charters grouped by village and includes a frontispiece that reveals the manuscript’s original style. It also explains how the editor approached editing a medieval chartulary—balancing fidelity with practical readability for topography, genealogy, and local history.

What you will discover ranges from land grants and confirmations to quitclaims, with witnessing names, dates, and places that illuminate the priory’s holdings and connections across the region.

• Context about the manuscript, its custody, and how scholars use it
• Modernized identifications of vills and places to aid navigation
• Plain-language abstracts of the original Latin documents
• Notes on manuscript structure, dating, and editorial choices

Ideal for readers of medieval English history, topography, and genealogy, and for anyone researching Bridlington’s medieval world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0265353505
• ISBN 13: 9780265353509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 531