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Introducing Manorial Records: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Manor for Family Historians
By Ian H Waller
Subtitled ‘Unlocking the Mysteries of the Manor for Family Historians’, Introducing Manorial Records really does do this – making the intriguing, but perhaps daunting, topic of manorial records suddenly seem a lot more comprehensible.
There are chapters on using and finding manorial documents, and also coverage in the book that explains the history of the manor, the reason behind the courts, why certain types of records were created, the various roles of the manorial officials and the meaning of many of the terms and phrases. There are also chapters on estate records and probate and taxation records, to provide an understanding of how to weave your research between the various record collections as required.
The illustrations are examples taken from the range
