Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- 2.1 The South Hampshire group of manors on the Winchester bishopric estate -- 4.1 Average fines (pence) at Downton for all virgate holdings 1350-1410 -- 4.2 The number of transfers of demesne through manorial courts over the whole estate of the bishop of Winchester, 1263-1415 -- 5.1 The number of entry fines in the pipe rolls, 1263-1348 -- 5.2 The number of entry fines in the pipe rolls, 1350-1415 -- 5.3 Average fines (pence) for all manorial and borough properties, 1263-1415 -- 5.4 Average fines (pence) for half virgates at Holway -- 5.5 Average fines (pence) for half virgates at Bishops Waltham -- 5.6 Average fines (pence) for virgates at Witney -- 5.7 Entry fines (pence) for one acre of assart at Witney -- 5.8 Average fines (pence) for virgates at Wargrave -- 9.1 The number of customary holdings transferred with purpresture and assart, 1270-1349 -- 9.2 Entry fines for virgated tenements augmented with additional properties, as a percentage of the total number of entry fines on the Winchester bishopric estates, 1263-1415 -- Tables -- 2.1 Bailiwicks of the Winchester estate -- 2.2 Receipts from gabulum on different bishopric manors in 1208-9 -- 2.3 The average sown acreages of the bishop's demesnes, 1209-70 -- 2.4 The reduction in the sown area of the bishop's demesnes between 1209-70 and 1408-11 -- 2.5 Average yields per acre of wheat and barley on bishopric demesnes, weighted by price, 1325-49 -- 2.6 Fines for assart and purpresture as a proportion of the total number of fines within each manor, 1263-1349 -- 2.7 The intermanorial distribution of marriage fines, 1263-1349 -- 2.8 The intermanorial distribution of marriage fines, 1350-1415 -- 2.9 The bishop of Winchester's net income from his boroughs, 1301-2 -- 2.10 Regional indices of the turnover of property (excluding towns), 1263-1349.

2.11 The reduction in the number of entry fines, by region (excluding towns), 1350-1415 -- 3.1 Variations in the size of virgates by region and manor -- 3.2 Numbers of virgates, half virgates and ferlings transferred as percentages of total transfers of virgated land within each manor of the Hampshire Chalk Plateau region, 1263-1349 and 1350-1415 -- 3.3 Property types transferred by inheritance and by extrafamilial transactions inter vivos, 1320-1415 -- 3.4 Fragments of customary holdings transferred as a percentage of all transfers, 1350-1415 -- 5.1 Manors with falling average fines for virgate and half virgate holdings after 1349 -- 6.1 Proportions of intrafamilial and extrafamilial transfers by decade, 1320-1415 -- 6.2 Intrafamilial and extrafamilial entry fines, 1341-64 -- 6.3 The percentage of extrafamilial fines on each manor, 1320-49 -- 6.4 The percentage of extrafamilial fines on each manor, 1350-79 -- 6.5 The percentage of extrafamilial fines on each manor, 1380-1415 -- 6.6 Extrafamilial fines post mortem as a percentage of all post mortem fines on each manor, 1350-64 -- 6.7 The average family premium (the difference between average fines on transfers by inheritance and those on transfers inter vivos, expressed as a percentage of the latter), 1350-1415 -- 6.8 The number of actions of recovery on the Winchester bishopric estate, 1263-1415 -- 7.1 The number and proportion of relations inheriting land, 1269-1349 and 1350-1415 -- 7.2 Remarriages of widows as a proportion of all marriages, 1263-1415 -- 7.3 Marriages to widows as a percentage of all recorded marriages on Taunton manors, 1263-1349 and 1350-1415 -- 7.4 Inheritances from widows, 1350-1415 -- 7.5 The percentage of relations inheriting land, 1341-64 -- 7.6 Heiresses as a percentage of the number of male heirs on each manor, 1361-2.

7.7 Decennial distribution of fines for marriage as a percentage of all fines, and the number associated with transfers of virgated holdings, 1263-1415 -- 8.1 The number of recorded extrafamilial transfers inter vivos on the Winchester manors: buyers and sellers, 1320-1415 -- 8.2 The number of elections to holdings on the Winchester bishopric estate, 1283-1349 -- 8.3 Numbers of recorded inter-peasant leases, 1271-1415 -- 9.1 The intermanorial distribution of standard holdings transferred with accumulations, 1350-1415 -- 9.2 The intermanorial distribution of standard holdings transferred with additional virgated tenements, 1350-1415 -- 9.3 The intermanorial distribution of standard holdings transferred with assart, purpresture and overland, 1350-1415 -- 9.4 The number and distribution of composite holdings over 60 acres, 1350-79 and 1380-1415 (arranged by region) -- Abbreviations -- General Editor's preface -- Preface -- Chapter 1 The peasant land market and the Winchester pipe rolls by P.D.A. Harvey -- Chapter 2 The bishop's estate -- Chapter 3 Units of property -- Chapter 4 Tenures -- Chapter 5 Entry fines -- Chapter 6 Families and their land -- Chapter 7 Transfers within families -- Chapter 8 Buyers and sellers -- Chapter 9 Accumulation -- Chapter 10 Conclusions -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- Frontispiece The estate of the bishopric of Winchester, c.1410.