Sixteenth-century court book of Siston

Reference Number: PP/2850
Level of Description: Item
Title: Sixteenth-century court book of Siston
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Tuttiett, Barbara: Author
Able Publishing: Publisher

Knebworth

13 Station Road, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, SG3 6AP
Date: 2002
ISBN: 1 903607 26 4
Extent: Pages: 136
Description: Transcriptions made by the Kingswood History Society of a manuscript held in the Sackville collection in the Centre for Kentish Studies at Maidstone (Ref no. U269 M84 'Various Manors'). It contains the following: Part 1. Cathedral Priory of Bath (accounts 1522-26 of Bath Abbey, receipts mainly from obits and payments which include entries for walking with the subprior, for St. Agnes ale, for silk for a cowl and payments to the porter and steward) pp. 32-47; Part 2. Survey of the Barton of Bristol 1553, pp. 49-112; Part 3 Highworth (Wilts) and the Alehouse Keepers (Alehouse Recognizances) and The Manor of Siston (manor court records), pp. 117-127
Subject: Estate accounts
Manorial courts
Monasteries
Recognizances
Surveys