Business and Community in Medieval England

The Cambridge Hundred Rolls Source Volume

Casson, Catherine, Casson, Mark, Catherine Casson, Mark Casson, John S. Lee, Katie Phillips

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781529209730
• eBook ISBN: 9781529209754
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Economics

One of the most important manuscripts surviving from thirteenth-century England, the corpus of documents known as the Hundred Rolls for Cambridge have been incomplete until the recent discovery of an additional roll.

This invaluable volume replaces the previous inaccurate transcription by the record commission of 1818 and provides new translations and additional appendices.

Shedding new light on important facets of business activity in thirteenth-century Cambridge, this volume makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of the early phases of capitalism.

This unique text will be of interest to anyone working in the fields of economic and business history, entrepreneurship, philanthropy and medieval studies.

A research monograph based on recently discovered historical documents, Compassionate Capitalism: Business and Community in Medieval England, by Casson et al, is also now available from Bristol University Press.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Notes on the Authors
• Introduction
• The Cambridge Hundred Rolls
• Appendix 1: Amercements in Cambridge 1176–7: list of people, many from Cambridge, who were amerced for carrying corn by water without a licence
• Appendix 2: Cambridge tallage of 1211: analysis of payments 1211–25
• Appendix 3: Amercements of the Abbot of Ramsey and William de Kantilup and their associates in Cambridge in 1219
• Appendix 4: Gifts (oblata), representing fines for offences made by Cambridge people in 1221
• Appendix 5: Summary of information in published editions of the Pipe Rolls relating to people and places in Cambridge, 1130, 1158–1224, 1230 and 1242
• Appendix 6: Selected excerpts from Rotuli Curiae Regis I–XX, relating to people and places in Cambridge
• Appendix 7: Selected excerpts from Calendar of Fine Rolls I–III, relating to people and places in Cambridge
• Appendix 8: Cambridge debts: selected cases from the Exchequer of the Jews, 1219–81
• Appendix 9: Cambridge: Jewish records of debts by people resident in or closely connected to Cambridge
• Appendix 10: Feet of fines: selected cases relevant to the town of Cambridge
• Appendix 11: Cambridgeshire subsidy rolls and eyres
• Appendix 12: Mayors and bailiffs of Cambridge, 1263–1300, as listed by the antiquary William Cole
• Appendix 13: Ancient places in Cambridge
• Appendix 14: Family dynasties of property owners
• References