The Fifteenth-century Inquisitions Post Mortem
The Fifteenth-century Inquisitions Post Mortem

Author: Michael Hicks

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1843837129

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Essays offering a guide to a vital source for our knowledge of medieval England. The Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) at the National Archives have been described as the single most important source for the study of landed society in later medieval England. Inquisitions were local enquiries into the lands heldby people of some status, in order to discover whatever income and rights were due to the crown on their death, and provide details both of the lands themselves and whoever held them. This book explores in detail for the first time the potential of IPMs as sources for economic, social and political history over the long fifteenth century, the period covered by this Companion. It looks at how they were made, how they were used, and their "accuracy", and develops our understanding of a source that is too often taken for granted; it answers questions such as what they sought to do, how they were compiled, and how reliable they are, while also exploring how they can best be usedfor economic, demographic, place-name, estate and other kinds of study. Michael Hicks is Professor of Medieval History, University of Winchester. Contributors: Michael Hicks, Christine Carpenter, Kate Parkin, Christopher Dyer, Matthew Holford, Margaret Yates, L.R. Poos, J. Oeppen, R.M. Smith, Sean Cunningham, Claire Noble, Matthew Holford, Oliver Padel.

The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504
The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504

Author: P. R. Cavill

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2009-08-13

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0191610267

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P.R. Cavill offers a major reinterpretation of early Tudor constitutional history. In the grand 'Whig' tradition, the parliaments of Henry VII were a disappointing retreat from the onward march towards parliamentary democracy. The king was at best indifferent and at worst hostile to parliament; its meetings were cowed and quiescent, subservient to the royal will. Yet little research has tested these assumptions. Drawing on extensive archival research, Cavill challenges existing accounts and revises our understanding of the period. Neither to the king nor to his subjects did parliament appear to be a waning institution, fading before the waxing power of the crown. For a ruler in Henry's vulnerable position, parliament helped to restore royal authority by securing the good governance that legitimated his regime. For his subjects, parliament served as a medium through which to communicate with the government and to shape - and, on occasion, criticize - its policies. Because of the demands parliament made, its impact was felt throughout the kingdom, among ordinary people as well as among the elite. Cooperation between subjects and the crown, rather than conflict, characterized these parliaments. While for many scholars parliament did not truly come of age until the 1530s, when - freed from its medieval shackles - the modern institution came to embody the sovereign nation state, in this study Henry's reign emerges as a constitutionally innovative period. Ideas of parliamentary sovereignty were already beginning to be articulated. It was here that the foundations of the 'Tudor revolution in government' were being laid.

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office, 1912, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office, 1912, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Great Britain Public Record Office

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-06-28

Total Pages: 782

ISBN-13: 9781332615124

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Excerpt from Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office, 1912, Vol. 3 The present volume is a further instalment of a Calendar of certain documents selected from the class formerly known as Escheats, or Inquisitions post mortem. It deals with the years 20 to 28 Edward I. The text has been prepared by Mr. J. E. E. S. Sharp, an Assistant Record Keeper, with some assistance from Mr. A. E. Stamp, M.A., of this Office. Mr. Stamp has also compiled the Index. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England
Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England

Author: Steven J. Gunn

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0199659834

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Annotation This volume reconstructs the lives of Henry VII's new men - low-born ministers with legal, financial, political, and military skills who enforced the king's will as he sought to strengthen government after the Wars of the Roses, examining how they exercised power, gained wealth, and spent it to sustain their new-found status.