Posted by admin on Jun 23, 2011
A register of medieval court rolls, surveys and maps, has been released online for the first time. Information about 200 Nottinghamshire manors is accessible to the public thanks to the county council’s archives team.
“Manorial documents are the earliest records for any local community,” said archivist Mark Dorrington. Manors were agricultural estates compromising a village whose inhabitants would work the land for the estate’s lord. The manorial documents, which pre-date Parish records started in 1538, include such details as the hanging of a thief, men accused of sheep theft and a fight in 14th century Mansfield.
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