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- Title
Production for the Market on a Small Fourteenth-Century Estate.
- Authors
Britnell, R. H.
- Abstract
This article examines the series of account rolls of various cities like Langenhoe and Essex, England. The author discusses the ways in which the economy of a single manor responded to the transformation of the market in land and agricultural produce during the fourteenth century period. Most of them are from the later fourteenth century, when Langenhoe was part of a lord's estates, but the accounts of five years, all before the Black Death, have survived from the time of the manor's previous lord, Lionel de Bradenham, who died in 1370. Lionel de Bradenham was a very minor light amongst the English landlords of his day, for Langenhoe was his only manor. The period when black Death died away Lionel put himself on the wrong side of the law and made enemies of many townsmen and villagers of north-east Essex. In 1350 supported by a number of his acquaintances in the shire, he laid siege to Colchester with armed men, exacting tribute from the merchants who traded in the markets and fairs of the countryside.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; BRITISH politics &; government; SOCIAL conditions in Great Britain; AGRICULTURAL history; DE Bradenham, Lionel; CITIES &; towns; BLACK Death pandemic, 1348-1351
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1966, Vol 19, Issue 2, p380
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2592258