Westminster Abbey was one of the wealthiest and most influential monastic houses in medieval England: c.1300 it held some 38,000 acres, largely in the Home Counties and West Midlands, and its revenues at the Dissolution exceeded £2,800 p.a. These assets supported a complement of 50 to 60 monks in the fourteenth century. This volume publishes 75 documents providing overviews ('states') of the Westminster estate and its revenues, as administered by the abbot and convent separately between c.1300 and 1422. The states provided crucial information at a period of great social and economic change either side of the Black Death, assisting in decisions about farming estates directly or leasing them - and to historians today they provide rich evidence of the agricultural economy of medieval England, the systems of provisioning monasteries, and the men who shaped them. The states are of two types. The first gives estimates of corn, stock and cash on the manors, made partway through the financial year - this is unusual information to survive across substantial parts of an estate. The second group has little parallel: summarising the manorial accounts across either the abbot's or the convent's portion of the lands, the states add information about the management of the estate, its value, arrears and so on. In this edition, the Latin text is given of the accounts up to 1375, after which the material is presented in calendared form. The texts are supplemented by a word list and glossary, and an appendix on the abbot's estate officials. Part 1 of this two-part volume contains the Introduction, the Word List and Glossary, the memoranda and states for the abbot's estates from 1348 to c.1422, along with an appendix on the abbot's estate officials. It also includes the texts of the views and states of the convent's estates from c.1300 up to 1334, all the material of this nature that survives from before the Black Death.

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Editorial Preface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations Editorial Conventions, Weights and Measures Part 1 Introduction Method of Editing Word List and Glossary TEXTS: THE ABBOT'S ESTATES I 1 WAM 6189 Memoranda compiled at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions for the year ending on 28 September 1348 I 2A and B WAM 6180 Memoranda compiled at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions for the year ending on 28 September 1349 I 3 WAM 24408 States of the abbot's manors and portions in the Western Parts for the period 29 September 1349 to 24 June 1350 I 4 WAM 6183 Remainders and other memoranda at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions for the year ending on 28 September 1356 I 5 WAM 6191 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1363 96 I 6 WAM 6197 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1365 I 7 WAM 6196 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1367 I 8 WAM 6174 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1368 I 9 WAM 6186 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1371 I 10 WAM 6179 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1372 I 11 WAM 6182 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1374 I 12 WAM 6177 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1375 I 13 WAM 6149 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1377 14 WAM 6169 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1379 I 15A and B WAM 6152 States of the abbot's manors and portions held at views at Easter 1380 and on 25 and 26 March 1381 I 16 WAM 6163 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1382 I 17 WAM 6147 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1383 I 18 WAM 6158 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1386 I 19 WAM 6165 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1388 I 20 WAM 9304 States of the abbot's manors and portions in the Western Parts at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1393 I 21 WAM 6139 States of the abbot's manors and portions in the Eastern Parts at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1397 I 22 WAM 6159 States of the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the year ending on 28 September 1398 I 23 WAM 6161 Dockets of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1399 I 24 WAM 6125 Dockets of accounts for the abbot's manors and portions in the Western Parts at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1422 Appendix. The abbot's manorial and estate officials TEXTS: THE CONVENT'S ESTATES II 1 WAM 23630 View of the states of the convent's royal manors, c.25 March 1300 II 2 WAM 23630 View of the states of the convent's manors assigned to the pittancer, c.25 March 1300 II 3 WAM 23640 View of the states of the convent's royal manors, c.25 March 1305 II 4 WAM 9298 View of the states of the convent's manors, December 1312 II 5 WAM 23646 View of the states of the convent's royal manors, January 1318 II 6 WAM 9289, rot. 3 View of the states of the convent's manors, November-December 1321 II 7 WAM 9289, rot. 5 View of the states of the convent's manors, November-December 1322 II 8 WAM 9289, rots. 1, 2 and 4 View of the states of the convent's manors, November-December 1323 II 9 WAM 23668 View of the royal manors, December 1344