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 2 completes the publication of the documentation for the convent's estates, with the states and dockets from 1352 to 1415. It includes the Bibliography and the Index to both volumes.

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Editorial Preface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations Editorial Conventions, Weights and Measures Part 2 TEXTS: THE CONVENT'S ESTATES (continued from Part 1) II 10 WAM 6176 Remainders (states) at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the convent's manors for the year ending on 1 August 1352 II 11 WAM 6194 Remainders (states) at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories for the year ending on 1 August 1353 II 12 WAM 6185 Remainders (states) at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories for the year ending on 28 September 1354 II 13 WAM 6184 Memoranda (states) compiled at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories for the year ending on 28 September 1355 II 14 WAM 6198 Memoranda (states) compiled at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories for the year ending on 28 September 1358 II 15 WAM 6193 Memoranda (states) compiled at the conclusion of the audit of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, and the royal manors, for the year ending on 28 September 1359 II 16 WAM 6188 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, and the royal manors, with states of the obedientiaries, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1363 II 17 WAM 6171 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors, with states of the obedientiaries, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1364 II 18 WAM 6195 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, with states of the obedientiaries, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1366 II 19 WAM 6192 Dockets of accounts for the royal manors at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1366 II 20 WAM 6187 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, and the royal manors, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1367 II 21 WAM 6172 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, and the royal manors, with states of the obedientiaries, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1369 II 22 WAM 9307 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, with states of the obedientiaries, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1370 II 23 WAM 6148 States of the convent's manors and rectories, with states of the royal manors, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1371 II 24 WAM 6181 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1375 II 25 WAM 6178 Dockets of accounts for the royal manors at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1375 II 26 WAM 6170 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1377 II 27 WAM 6153 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, and for the royal manors, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1378 II 28 WAM 6154 and 9301 Dockets of accounts for the convent's manors and rectories, and for the royal manors, with states of the obedientiaries, at the conclusion of the audit for the year ending on 28 September 1379