Name: THE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH BOROUGH
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THE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH BOROUGH

Slightly better than very good condition. Blue cloth, gilt titles. xx + 371 pages. Reprint of 1936 edition.

Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine.

ISBN: 0719003393
Stock no. 583607

Preface
Addenda
Bibliography
THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD
CHAP.
I. THE ORIGINS OF THE BOROUGH
1. Introductory
2. Before the Danish Invasions
3. The New Burhs fortified in the Danish Wars
4. After Fortification
II. BOROUGH AND COURT
1. The pre-Domesday Evidence
2. The Domesday Evidence
III. THE BOROUGH FIELDS AND PASTURES
IV. THE BURGESSES AND THEIR TENURE
1. Social Status and the Anglo-Saxon Burgesses
2. "The Customs of Burgesses"
3. Tenure by Custom and Burgage Tenure
4. Burgage Tenure in Northern France in the eleventh century
V. THE BOROUGH COMMUNITY BEFORE 1066
1. The Burgesses as Agricultural Community
2. The Burgesses as Trading Community
3. The Burgesses as Revenue-rendering and Administrative Community
VI. SUMMARY AND GENERAL CONCLUSION TO 1066
THE POST-CONQUEST PERIOD
VII. THE FIRMA BURGI AND THE COMMUNE, 1066-1191
1. The Firma Burgi in 1066
2. The Firma Burgi in 1086
3. The Firma Burgi and the Commune 1086-1154
4. Revocable grants of Firma Burgi.
5. The First Fee Farms and the Commune of London 1189-91
VIII. LIBER BURGUS
IX. THE BOROUGH COMMUNITY FROM THE TWELFTH CENTURY
1. The Borough Community and the Gild Merchant before the Age of Mayors and Fee Farms
2. The Beginning of Municipal Incorporation
X. THE ORIGIN OF TOWN COUNCILS
XI. THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH
XII. THE STUDY OF EARLY MUNICIPAL HISTORY IN ENGLAND
INDEX

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