The Annals of West Coker

Matthew Nathan

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780521336994
• eBook ISBN: 9781139118217
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

After a life of public service Sir Matthew Nathan retired to the Manor of West Coker near Yeovil in Somerset. He developed a keen interest in his new home; he began first to read about it, then to deepen and widen his research, and then to turn his knowledge into this connected account, which was originally published in 1957. The local sources - the manorial records of his own estate, the parish and county records - were very rich. With great thoroughness he incorporated them in a local history of the area up to the nineteenth century. Nearly all the forces which affect the affairs of the nation can be traced in the records of the area. It is local and amateur history, but of the best calibre, and there is much to interest historians interested in local records. These are liberally quoted and there are detailed maps.

Table of contents

• Cover
• THE ANNALS OF WEST COKER
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• AUTHOR'S PREFACE
• EDITOR'S PREFACE
• FOREWORD
• CHAPTER I: SOUTH SOMERSET IN EARLY AGES
• CHAPTER II: SOUTH SOMERSET IN SAXON AND DANISH TIMES
• CHAPTER III: COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NORMAN KINGS
• CHAPTER IV: COKER IN THE TIME OF THE DE MANDEVILLES: (circa 1140–1308)
• CHAPTER V: COKER IN THE TIME OF THE FIRST COURTENAYS: (1308–1391)
• CHAPTER VI: WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE LATER COURTENAYS: (1391–1556)
• CHAPTER VII: WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NEW MEN: (1556–91)
• CHAPTER VIII: WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE PORTMANS: (1591–1727)
• CHAPTER IX: WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE BERKELEY PORTMANS: (1728–1829)
• APPENDIX I: Abstract from Domesday Book giving tenure of lands in the neighbourhood of Somerton, T.R.E. and T.R.W.
• APPENDIX 11: Domesday entry of Coker
• APPENDIX III: Extracts from Neustria Pia with reference to the claim of St Stephen's Abbey, Caen, to have been granted the Manor of Coker
• APPENDIX IV: A bailiff's account of the Manor of West Coker (1309)
• APPENDIX V: Extent of East Coker Manor, 13211
• APPENDIX VI
• APPENDIX VII: Accounts of West Coker Manor
• APPENDIX VIII: Indictment of persons charged with burning down George Middleton's house at West Coker on l September 1457
• APPENDIX IX: The Coker family out of south Somerset, 1285–1498
• APPENDIX X: Abbot Beere's survey of abbey lands in West Coker, 1507
• APPENDIX XI: Accounts of West Coker Manor, 1527
• APPENDIX XII
• APPENDIX XIII: West Coker cases of debt or trespass in the Court of Common Pleas. From Trinity 1597 to Trinity 1604
• APPENDIX XIV
• APPENDIX XV: Deliveries of West Country canvas, 1634–72
• APPENDIX XVI: Numbers and names of fields in West Coker from the Map and Schedule annexed to the Tithe Agreement of 1838 with past variations and probable meanings
• INDEX