Microfilms of Court Rolls from Great Yarmouth. A target on the front of Reel 2 says there should be eight reels and gives the dates as '1337/8, 1338/9, 1339/40, 1340/1, 1342/3, 1344/5, 1345/6, 1346/7'.
GREAT YARMOUTH COURT ROLLS
This material is held atLSE Library Archives and Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 97 COLL MISC 0980
- Dates of Creation
- 1337-1347
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 5 reels of microfilm
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Court rolls are the records of those courts which provided justice at the local level and should not be confused with the records of the central law courts at Westminster. Recording the proceedings of public, franchise and manorial courts, they contain information concerning local issues, such as the ownership and occupation of land and the enforcement of law and order, and also information about the lowest members of the social hierarchy.
The provenance of the original court rolls which these microfilms document is not certain (they are presumably in a local record office in East Anglia). The microfilms were given to the LSE in 1963, accessioned in the Archive in 1975 and put into Coll Misc sequence in 1998. Microfilmed by the University of London Photographic section, date unknown.
Arrangement
Five reels of microfilm.
Access Information
OPEN
Acquisition Information
Oddy, Derek
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