Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Preface
• Addenda
• Bibliography
• THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD
• CHAP.
• I. THE ORIGINS OF THE BOROUGH
• 1. Introductory
• 2. Before the Danish Invasions
• 3. The New Burhs fortified in the Danish Wars
• 4. After Fortification
• II. BOROUGH AND COURT
• 1. The pre-Domesday Evidence
• 2. The Domesday Evidence
• III. THE BOROUGH FIELDS AND PASTURES
• IV. THE BURGESSES AND THEIR TENURE
• 1. Social Status and the Anglo-Saxon Burgesses
• 2. "The Customs of Burgesses"
• 3. Tenure by Custom and Burgage Tenure
• 4. Burgage Tenure in Northern France in the eleventh century
• V. THE BOROUGH COMMUNITY BEFORE 1066
• 1. The Burgesses as Agricultural Community
• 2. The Burgesses as Trading Community
• 3. The Burgesses as Revenue-rendering and Administrative Community
• VI. SUMMARY AND GENERAL CONCLUSION TO 1066
• THE POST-CONQUEST PERIOD
• VII. THE FIRMA BURGI AND THE COMMUNE, 1066-1191
• 1. The Firma Burgi in 1066
• 2. The Firma Burgi in 1086
• 3. The Firma Burgi and the Commune 1086-1154
• 4. Revocable grants of Firma Burgi.
• 5. The First Fee Farms and the Commune of London 1189-91
• VIII. LIBER BURGUS
• IX. THE BOROUGH COMMUNITY FROM THE TWELFTH CENTURY
• 1. The Borough Community and the Gild Merchant before the Age of Mayors and Fee Farms
• 2. The Beginning of Municipal Incorporation
• X. THE ORIGIN OF TOWN COUNCILS
• XI. THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH
• XII. THE STUDY OF EARLY MUNICIPAL HISTORY IN ENGLAND
• INDEX