Hundred Rolls (2 results)

Condition: Very Good. 26 pages, 5 tables. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Economic History Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

[London]: by Command of His Majesty King George. An Important Feudal Survey to Determine What was Owed to the Crown and the Nobility [Great Britain]. [The Hundred Rolls]. Rotuli Hundredorum Temp. Hen.III & Edw.I. In Turr' Lond' et in Curia Receptae Scaccarii Westm. Asservati. [London]: Printed by Command of His Majesty King George III, 1812. 2 volumes. Folio (17" x 10-1/4"; 43 x 26 cm). Contemporary or near-contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt titles and volume numbers to spines. Worn, boards separated or detached, library labels to front boards, scuffing and wear to extremities, spine ends abraded, library bookplates (of Norfolk & Norwich Library, indicating these books were salvaged from a fire on August 1, 1898) to front pastedowns, offsetting to endpapers. Moderate toning, negligible light foxing in places, internally clean. $350. * The Hundred Rolls record the findings of special inquisitions made in 1255 and, more notably, from 1274-75 and 1279-80, by royal commissioners to assess population and land holdings for taxation purposes and to determine services owed by tenants. (The term "hundreds" was used to denote an administrative subdivision along with "boroughs" and "liberties.") It is largely considered to be an attempt to produce a second Domesday Book, although it failed to match the latter's comprehensiveness. The responses, or returns, were recorded on strips of parchment with seals and known as "Ragman Rolls." Where they survive, the records are valuable sources of information for genealogists, historians and other researchers of the medieval period. The present volumes are part of the series produced by the Record Commission from 1812-1818. They contain the charge to the commission for the 1274-75 survey and facsimiles from the original rolls. [London]: by Command of His Majesty King George (illustrator).…