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edited by Sylvia Watts Collections for a History of Staffordshire Glebe terriers were drawn up to list and protect the endowments of benefices. The principal concern was to prevent the encroachment on and loss of any glebe lands belonging to a living. Terriers also describe the parsonage house and the rights to any tithes, and from the late 17 th century describe in detail the crops and livestock on which tithe within the parish was due and the customs for levying it. Glebe terriers were first required by a canon of 1571 at a time when there was considerable apprehension that the wealth of parish churches was leaking away into lay hands. Rowley Regis has an early terrier of 1585, but the earliest Staffordshire terriers mostly date from 1612. There are few terriers for the mid 17th century, but from 1693 until about 1801 terriers were returned every three to five years. As well as being a valuable source for the history of individual parishes, glebe terriers can yield comparative information about the development of vernacular housing and agriculture and the existence of furnaces and mills. They can also indicate the timing of the enclosure of the open fields, for which, as they were often enclosed by agreement, information is often elusive. Volume Twenty-Two calendars all the known glebe terriers for parishes from Abbots Bromley to Knutton and includes an introduction describing the history and content of glebe terriers. Volume Twenty-Three covers the parishes from Lapley to Yoxall. The Civil War in Staffordshire in the Spring of 1646: Collections for a History of Staffordshire Staffordshire. This edition will be essential reading for all interested in the military, political, and social history of English civil war, and anyone interested in seventeenth-century Staffordshire. The volume complements and completes an edition of Brereton’s earlier letter books which covered the siege of Chester and which was edited by Norman Dore and published in two volumes by the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society in 1984 and 1990. It also supplements an earlier publication of the Staffordshire Record Society on the English civil war: D. H. Pennington and I. A. Roots (eds), The Committee at Stafford 1643–1645: The Order Book of the Staffordshire County Committee (Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Fourth Series, Volume One, 1957). Cost: £20 plus £6 post & package (UK) Dr Douglas Hay is Professor of Law and History at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Department of History, York University, Toronto. He has published widely on English and imperial eighteenth- and nineteenth-century criminal and employment law, and on Staffordshire history in the eighteenth century. This is the first publication of records of the King’s Bench for the eighteenth century; the only other published calendar ends in 1442. The court’s ‘Crown Side’ dealt with all criminal cases before it, and the records for the eighteenth century are both unindexed by county and vast in extent. The court’s procedures, elaborated by its clerks as well as the law, were formidably complex. King’s Bench was the supreme court of criminal law for England and Wales, through its command of the prerogative writs of habeas corpus, certiorari, prohibition, and mandamus; it was the sole court in which criminal and ex officio informations could be used to prosecute serious misdemeanours, including riot and sedition. Cases heard there constitute a large part of the law reports, since the decisions of its judges changed the law, but reported cases constitute less than one percent of those that came before them, and are very unrepresentative of its daily work. Fourth Series Volume IV Fourth Series Volume VII Fourth Series Volume XVII: The Staffordshie Reports of Andrew Thompson to the Inclosure Commissioners, 1858-68. Landlord Investment in Staffordshire Fourth Series Volume XVIII: The Forests of Cannock and Kinver: Select Documents 1235-1372 Fourth Series Volume XIX: Staffordshire Histories. Essays in Honour of Michael Greenslade Fourth Series Volume XX: A Medieval Miscellany Three Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Surveys of Burton Abbey Occasional Paper Number 3: William Salt and his Library
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