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1 Elaine Clark: «Debt Litigation in a Late Medieval English Vill», in James Ambrose Raftis (ed.): Pathways to Medieval Peasants , Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1981.

2 See, for example, Chris Briggs, Credit and village society in fourteenth-century England , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009; idem: «Manor court procedures, debt litigation levels, and rural credit provision in England, c. 1290-c. 1380», Law and History Review , 24 (2006), pp. 519-558; Phillipp R. Schofield: «Dearth, debt and the local land market in a late thirteenth century Suffolk village», Agricultural History Review , 45, part 1, (1997), pp. 1-17; idem: «L’endettement et le crédit dans la campagne anglaise au moyen âge», in Maurice Berthe (ed.): Endettement paysan et crédit rural dans l’Europe médiévale et moderne. Actes des XVII es journées internationales d’histoire de l’abbaye de Flaran, Septembre 1995 , Toulouse, Mirail, 1998, pp. 69-97; idem: «Access to credit in the medieval English countryside», in Phillipp R. Schofield & Nicholas J. Mayhew (ed.): Credit and debt in medieval England , Oxford, Oxbow, 2002, pp. 106-126; idem: «Credit and debt in the medieval English countryside», in Il Mercato della Terra. Secc. XIII-XVIII , Prato, Monash University, 2004, pp. 785-796; idem: «The social economy of the medieval village», Economic History Review , 61 S1 (2008), pp. 38-63.

3 C. Briggs: Credit and village society .

4 C. Briggs: Credit and village society ; Ph. R. Schofield: «Dearth, debt and the local land market»; Ph. R. Schofield: «Social economy».

5 Phillipp R. Schofield: «Dealing in crisis: external credit and the early fourteenth-century English village», in Martin Allen and Matthew Davies (eds): Medieval Merchants and Money: Essays in honour of James L. Bolton , London IHR, 2016, pp. 253-270.

6 For a discussion of the historiography of the medieval English peasantry, see Phillipp R. Schofield: Peasants and historians. Debating the medieval English peasantry , Manchester, MUP, 2016. See also Christopher Dyer: «Les Cours Manoriales», Études Rurales , 103-104 (1986), pp. 19-28 and on the appearance of manorial court rolls, Zvi Razi & Richard. M. Smith: «The Origins of the English Manorial Court Rolls as a Written Record: A Puzzle», in Z. Razi & R. M. Smith (ed.): Medieval Society and the Manor Court , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 36-68.

7 Select Pleas in Manorial and Other Seigneurial Courts , ed. and tr. Frederic W. Maitland, Selden Society, 2, 1889.

8 In addition to the works listed above by Chris Briggs and Phillipp R. Schofield (n. 2), an important and earlier contribution was made by John S. Beckerman: «Customary law in English manorial courts in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries», unpublished University of London PhD, 1972; the core of his thesis was subsequently published as idem, «Procedural innovation and institutional change in medieval English manorial courts», Law and History Review , 10 (1992), pp. 198-252. Other historians have touched on such issues as part of their wider campaign of research; see especially, Lloyd Bonfield: «The Nature of Customary Law in the Manor Courts of Medieval England», Comparative Studies in Society and History , XXXI (1989), pp. 515-534; idem: «What did Edwardian Villagers Mean by «Customary Law»?», in Z. Razi & R. M. Smith (ed.): Medieval Society and the Manor Court , pp. 103-116; John S. Beckerman: «Toward a Theory of Medieval Manorial Adjudication: the Nature of Communal Judgements in a System of Customary Law», Law and History Review , xiii (1995), pp. 1-22; Paul R. Hyams: «What did Edwardian Villagers Understand by Law?», in Z. Razi & R. M. Smith (ed.): Medieval Society and the Manor Court , pp. 69-102. Hyam’s important essay and the themes arising have recently been discussed in Chris Briggs & Phillipp R. Schofield: «Understanding Edwardian villagers’ use of law: some manor court litigation evidence», Reading Medieval Studies , XL (2014) (guest ed. D. Postles), pp. 117-139.

9 C. Briggs: Credit and village society ; also Ph. R. Schofield: «Dearth, debt and the local land market»; idem: «Credit, crisis and the money supply, c. 1280-c. 1330», in Martin Allen & D’Maris Coffman: Money, Prices and Wages. Essays in Honour of Professor Nicholas Mayhew , Basingstoke / New York, Palgrave, 2015, pp. 94-108.

10 On which, see, for instance,

11 Phillipp R. Schofield: «Credit and its record in the later medieval English countryside», in Philipp R. Rössner (ed.): Cities – Coins – Commerce. Essays presented to Ian Blanchard on the occasion of his 70 th Birthday , Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012, pp. 77-88.

12 For court roll-recorded recognizances, see for instance the examples given in Phillipp R. Schofield: «Peasant debt in English manorial courts: form and nature», in Julie-Mayade Claustre (ed.): La Dette et le juge. Juridiction gracieuse et jurisdiction contenieuse du XIII e au XV e siècle , Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2007, p. 57, and the discussion by C. Briggs: Credit and village society , pp. 79-82 and p. 225 for a further example.

13 See, for instance, Ph. R. Schofield: «L’endettement et le credit», p. 81; J. S. Beckerman: «Customary law», p. 286.

14 See, for instance, some examples offered in C. Briggs: Credit and village society , pp. 224-227. The development of law in the manor court in the period c. 1250-c. 1350 is the subject of the project «Private law and medieval village society: personal actions in manor courts, c. 12501350», funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2006-2009, grant reference AH/ D502713/1; the project team comprised Chris Briggs and Matthew Tompkins as project researchers; Richard Smith was principal investigator, with the present author as co-investigator. A volume arising from the project and edited by Briggs and Schofield will be published by the Selden Society: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/selden_society/pub.html#avp(last accessed 16 March 2015).

15 See, in particular, the discussion of these developments in J. S. Beckerman: «Procedural innovation».

16 C. Briggs: «Manor court procedures».

17 Phillipp R. Schofield: «Peasants, litigation and agency in medieval England: the development of law in manorial courts in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries», in Janet Burton, Phillipp R. Schofield & Björn Weiler (ed.): Thirteenth-century England XIV , Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, pp. 15-25.

18 See, for discussion of this particular point, C. Briggs & Ph. R. Schofield: «Understanding Edwardian villagers’ use of law», pp. 132-135.

19 For an instance, see Phillipp R. Schofield: «Peasants and the manor court: gossip and litigation in a Suffolk village at the close of the thirteenth century», Past and Present , 159 (1998), pp. 15-16, and especially n. 47.

20 See, for instance, Messing, court of 15 May 1296, Essex Record Office D/DH X1; East and West Hanningfield, court of 28 April 1332, Essex Record Office D/DP M 832; Foxton, court of 7 Oct. 1275, Trinity College, Cambridge Box 27 roll 3.

21 Horsham St Faith, court of 31 May 1316, Norfolk Record Office, NRS 19505. For a similar instance, see West Halton, court of 14 July 1315, Westminster Abbey Muniments 14545.

22 Bottisham, court of 14 Aug 1344, The National Archive, SC2/155/49, 29 r. and d.

23 See, for instance, Bottisham, court of 2 Oct. 1344, The National Archive [hereafter TNA] SC2/155/49, 30r.

24 Ph. R. Schofield: «Peasants, litigation and agency», pp. 22-23.