Buckinghamshire Record Society

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Volume 34: The Buckinghamshire Eyre of 1286 (2006), 555 pp

edited by Lesley Boatwright

A translation of the rolls of civil pleas heard by the royal justices at the final eyre visitation for Buckinghamshire. The introduction includes a discussion of the topographical and economic background, landowners, knights and gentry, the king’s peace and eyre system, inheritance, the property of husbands and wives, women at the eyre, the church at the eyre and the end of the eyre system. The criminal cases will be published in a later volume.

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