Nottinghamshire introduction

Thorn, Caroline; Thorn, Frank

Abstract

The introduction discusses the history of the county and its assessment; the county boundary; the administration of the county; the Wapentakes, their reconstruction, rubrication, order, revised name-forms, and boundaries; small Hundreds; Wapentake courts, moot-sites, links to royal manors, and lordship; later Wapentakes; manorial and ecclesiastical organisation; the state of the manuscript for the county; content and layout of entries; writing and revision; Rutland; duplicate entries; boroughs, castles and Forest; the identification of places; 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. Nottinghamshire introduction. [Data]

• Deposit Date: Jul 31, 2007
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: Domesday, Domesday Book, Great Domesday, Nottinghamshire, Notes, Phillimore notes
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/458396
• Contract Date: Jul 31, 2007