Dodnash Priory Charters
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218 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

Series: Suffolk Charters

Series Vol. Number: 16

Imprint: Boydell Press

Dodnash Priory Charters

Edited by Christopher Harper-Bill

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The publication of Suffolk charters goes from strength to strength. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

The history of Dodnash Priory, one of numerous Augustinian priories founded in East Anglia in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, has hitherto been totally obscure. The two hundred original charters edited here now show that it was founded by Wimer the chaplain, sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk and a prominent servant of Henry II, and that although always small it played a disproportionately large part in the economic and social life of south-east Suffolk for the next three centuries. The early charters include the first known references to Flatford Mill at East Bergholt; later documents relate to serious flooding at the end of the thirteenth century, and soon thereafter to the leasing of estates in order to adapt to new economic conditions. As always, the charters provide much information about local lay society as well as the canons themselves.

The late CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL was Professor of English History at the University of East Anglia.

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9780851153728

July 1998

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Title Details

218 Pages

2.34 x 1.56 cm

Series: Suffolk Charters

Series Vol. Number: 16

Imprint: Boydell Press