The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 1

Barbara Harvey is an Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her publications have focused on late medieval social, economic and ecclesiastical history and especially on Westminster Abbey and its estates. They include Documents llustrating the Rule of Watler de Wenlok, Abbot of Westminster, 1283-1307; Westminster Abbey and its Estates in the Middle Ages; and Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience, which centres on the lives of monks of Westminster Abbey, and which was joint winner of the Wolfson History Prize in 1993.Chris Woolgar is Professor of History and Archival Studies at the University of Southampton. He has a long-standing interest in the history of the everyday, especially in late medieval England, in patterns of documentation and in editorial work. His publications include Household Accounts from Medieval England, The Great Household in Late Medieval England, The Senses in Late Medieval England, Testamentary Records of the English and Welsh Episcopate 1200-1413 and The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500. He has been the editor of the Journal of Medieval History since 2009.

• Editorial Preface and AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsEditorial Conventions, Weights and Measures Part 1IntroductionMethod of EditingWord List and Glossary TEXTS: THE ABBOT'S ESTATESI 1 WAM 6189 Memoranda compiled at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions for the year ending on 28 September 1348I 2A and B WAM 6180 Memoranda compiled at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions for the year ending on 28 September 1349I 3 WAM 24408 States of the abbot's manors and portions in the Western Parts for the period 29 September 1349 to 24 June 1350I 4 WAM 6183 Remainders and other memoranda at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions for the year ending on 28 September 1356I 5 WAM 6191 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1363 96I 6 WAM 6197 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1365I 7 WAM 6196 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1367I 8 WAM 6174 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1368I 9 WAM 6186 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1371I 10 WAM 6179 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1372I 11 WAM 6182 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1374I 12 WAM 6177 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1375I 13 WAM 6149 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 137714 WAM 6169 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1379I 15A and B WAM 6152 States of the abbot's manors and portions held at views at Easter 1380 and on 25 and 26 March 1381I 16 WAM 6163 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1382I 17 WAM 6147 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1383I 18 WAM 6158 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1386I 19 WAM 6165 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1388I 20 WAM 9304 States of the abbot's manors and portions in the Western Parts at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1393I 21 WAM 6139 States of the abbot's manors and portions in the Eastern Parts at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1397I 22 WAM 6159 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1398I 23 WAM 6161 Dockets of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1399I 24 WAM 6125 Dockets of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions in the Western Parts at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1422Appendix. The abbot's manorial and estate officials TEXTS: THE CONVENT'S ESTATESII 1 WAM 23630 View of the states of the convent's royal manors, c.25 March 1300II 2 WAM 23630 View of the states of the convent's manors assigned to the pittancer, c.25 March 1300II 3 WAM 23640 View of the states of the convent's royal manors, c.25 March 1305II 4 WAM 9298 View of the states of the convent's manors, December 1312II 5 WAM 23646 View of the states of the convent's royal manors, January 1318II 6 WAM 9289, rot. 3 View of the states of the convent's manors, November-December 1321II 7 WAM 9289, rot. 5 View of the states of the convent's manors, November-December 1322II 8 WAM 9289, rots. 1, 2 and 4 View of the states of the convent's manors, November-December 1323II 9 WAM 23668 View of the royal manors, December 1344

"Even to skim through these two volumes is enough to give a sense of the richness and importance of the 'states' as mentioned on the first page ... those with an interest in the economic and social history of Westminster Abbey, or of late medieval Europe more generally, will find much here to sink their teeth into.