Quarto memoirs volume 1
Contents:
‘Bedfordshire in 1086: an analysis and synthesis of Domesday Book,’ by G. Herbert Fowler
This book presents a detailed analysis of land holdings and their fiscal value in the Domesday assessment. It considers the ‘social fabric’ of Norman and Anglo-Saxon society, from the royal demesne to the Saxon tillers of the soil. The maps show the hundreds in 1086; Norman and Saxon estates; meadowland; woodland; water mills; areas of devastation indicating the probable route of the Norman invasion; and socland in Edward the Confessor’s time.
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Reviews
‘The present position in Domesday studies has been cogently put by G. Herbert Fowler, who agreed with Maitland that in this part of England the teamland is best represented by 120 acres with a rather elastic boundary capable of some expansion or contraction as needed’ – A. C. Chibnall, Sherington: fiefs and fields of a Buckinghamshire village (1965), p. 88 note 2.
Publication details
Bedfordshire in 1086: an analysis and synthesis of Domesday Book, by G. Herbert Fowler. Aspley Guise, BHRS, 1922. iv, 118p, 9 maps, 8 pedigrees on p109-12. Quarto memoirs, volume 1.
The book has been digitised and is available on the Internet Archive site. The Bedfordshire Historical Record Society did not commission nor undertake the work and is not responsible for the content nor quality of digitisation of this volume.
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