Author: William Illingworth [ed.]
Title: Testa de Nevill Sive Liber Feodorum in Curia Scaccarii. Temp. Hen. III. & Edw. I.
Description: London, By Command of His Majesty King George III; The House of Commons of Great Britain; G. Eyre and A. Strahan, 1807. First edition. Leather. A smart copy of this reproduction of the Liber Feodorum, or 'Book of Fees', commonly known as the Testa de Nevill, an account of early feudal tenures dating from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. With preliminaries in English, and the majority of the text in abbreviated Latin.A smart early nineteenth century reproduction of this transcript, made in around 1302, of around five-hundred accounts of money owed to the crown, with records dating from between 1198 and 1239.Present in this volume are records intended for the use of the exchequer, with an index of places and persons referenced, and accounts of feudal landholdings.Illustrated with a facsimile plate.With the stamp of the Worcester College library to the front pastedown, and their crest in gilt to the front board.A smart copy of this fascinating insight into the finances of the crown in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In a full calf binding. Significant rubbing to joints and board perimeters. Loss to tail of spine label. Joints starting, with boards holding firm. Stamp to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Instances of spotting throughout. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

Keywords: worcester college thirteenth century england chancellor of the exchequer thirteenth century england None


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