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.