Huntingdonshire introduction

Thorn, Caroline; Thorn, Frank

Abstract

The introduction discusses the geography and history of the county; the county boundary; Hidage; the Hundreds, their names, arrangements, boundaries, lordship, moot-sites, courts, and later Hundreds; the administration of the county; manorial and ecclesiastical organisation; the state of the manuscript for the county; amendments to the text; the Declarations; Lordship land; the rubrication of the Hundreds, Hundred and Vill order, borough and castle; related or 'satellite' texts; the "Inquisitio Eliensis" (Ely Enquiry); the editorial history of earlier versions of the notes, and the current state of the revision. The introduction has been written for this edition by Caroline and Frank Thorn.

Citation

Thorn, C., & Thorn, F. Huntingdonshire introduction. [Dataset]

• Deposit Date: Jul 31, 2007
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: Domesday, Domesday Book, Great Domesday, Huntingdonshire, Notes, Phillimore notes
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/458293