The Royal Demesne in English History: The Crown Estate in the Governance of the Realm From the Conquest to 1509

ISBN-13: 9780367208592 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str.

B. P. Wolffe

Opis

Originally published in 1971 The Royal Demesne in English History shows how Norman and Angevin kings were able to regard the whole of their English kingdom as their royal demesne. The book shows how these kings created royal estates within their English kingdom.

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Preface  Abbreviations  Part I: The Royal Demesne in Norman and Angevin Government  1. Royal Demesne and Tallage  2. ‘Ancient Demesne’  3. Royal Demesne and Parliamentary Taxation  4. Royal Demesne and Land Revenue  5. Royal Demesne and Patronage  6. Contrasts in the Role of the Capetian Domaine  7. Restraints of Alienation in England and the Genesis of ‘the King to Live of his Own’  Part II: A New Royal Patrimony: The Plantagenet Family Estate 1227-1399  8. Family Endowments  9. Alienations Outside the Royal Family  10. Finance and Royal Patronage  11. Exchequer and Chamber Administration  12. Parliamentary Criticism  Part III: Patronage, Politics and Finance, 1399-1437  13. Parliament and the Act of Resumption 1404  14. The Financial Survey of 1433  Part IV: The Background to the Resumptions of 1450-6  15. The Royal Lands and the Spoils System Under Henry VI  16. Resumption as the Panacea for Financial Reform  17. The Collapse of Royal Government, 1437-50  Part V: The Resumptions of 1450-6  18. The Leicester Act of Resumption of May 1450  19. The Act of Resumption of March 1451  20. The ‘Yorkist’ Act of Resumption of 1455-6  21. The Significance of the Resumptions  Part VI: The Crown Estate of the Yorkist Kings  22. Edward IV’S Act of Resumption  23. Receiver’s, Surveyors and Auditors of Land Revenues, 1461-83  24. Administrative Changes in the Central Government Under Edward IV  25. Richard III and the Crown Lands  Part VII: Henry VII’s Land Revenues and Chamber Finance  26. The Collapse and Re-Establishment of the Yorkist Land Revenue  27. Lancastrian, Yorkist and Early Tudor Lands Revenues Compared  Part VIII: Conclusion  Appendix A: Lands of the Royal Family, 1327-77  Appendix B: The Proposed Confiscation of Temporalities of the Church in 1404  Appendix C: The Crown Lands as Affected by the Acts of Resumption 1450-61  Appendix D: The Management of the Crown Lands, 1461-85. Lists of Officers with the Area if Their Charge  Index