Yorkshire Hundred and Quo Warranto Rolls

364 Pages·1996·32.6 MB·English

by  Barbara English

Yorkshire Hundred
and Quo Warranto
olls 1274-1294
At midsummer 1274 Edward I returned to
England from crusade, and ordered a major
investigation of matters that concerned the
crown, in particular encroachments upon his
rights and the misconduct of local government
officers. The inquiries were made hundred by
hundred, and wapentake by wapentake (the
local government divisions of the south and
the north). Subsequently the king sent justices
into the English shires, who required claim-
ants to prove by what authority they held
delegated royal powers: they were summoned
by the writ quo warranto (by what warrant).
The two sets of records became known as the
hundred rolls and the quo warranto rolls. Such
inquiries had been made before, but the
investigations made between 1274 and 1294
were particularly searching. The only edition
of the English hundred and quo warranto rolls
was published at the beginning of the nine-
teenth century in specially created type,
designed to reproduce the appearance of the
original manuscripts; it contains a number of
errors and omissions.
For the present edition, the surviving manu-
scripts in the Public Record Office for the
Yorkshire hundred and quo warranto inquir-
ies have been collated, edited and translated;
the text provides a valuable source for many
aspects of late thirteenth-century Yorkshire
society, in particular the government of the
shire. The present edition is the first published
translation of the records for any English
county.
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Above: Extract from the Yorkshire hundred rolls of 1274-1275 for Howdenshire, relating to
Henry de Normanton and others who had abused their official powers. See text pp. 103-4.
(PRO SC 5/8/3, m.8d.)
Below: Extract from the Yorkshire quo warranto proceedings of 1279-1281 against Thomas
de Furnivalle, relating to his claims in Sheffield and Hallamshire. See text p. 124 (JUST
1/1076,m.76d.)
Illustrations and text are Crown copyright material in the Public Record Office, reproduced by permission
of the Controller of H. M. Stationery Office.
THE YORKSHIRE
ARCHAEROLOGICAL SOCIETY
FOUNDED t867, INCORPORATED 1893
RECORD SERIES
VOLUME CLI
FOR. THE YEARS 1993 AND 1994
TORK Shine FUNDRED
AND
QUO WARRANTO ROLLS
EDITED BY BARBARA ENGLISH
PRINTED FOR. THE SOCIETY
1996
Editorial matter © Professor Barbara English 1996
Hon. General Editor
SYLVIA THOMAS
RECORD SERIES COMMITTEE
Mr G. C. F. Forster (Chairman)
Mr W. Bentley
Der L. As -S. Butler
Dr R. M. Butler
De W. Ro Childs
Dr N.. A; Cookson
Professor M. ‘G; Cross
Mr P. B. Davidson
Professor R. B. Dobson
Mie Py Wrench
Professor D. Palliser
Dr G. Redmonds
Dr E. Royle
Professor D. M. Smith
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MrJ . Taylor
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