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Add Roll 63207
- Record Id:
- 040-002199786
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002199326
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001310.0x0002ea
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100177809544.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Roll 63207
- Title:
- Household roll of Katherine de Norwich
- Scope & Content:
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The household roll of Katherine de Norwich (d. c. 1341-1343), containing a set of accounts produced in her household. Katherine de Norwich was the daughter of Sir John de Hethersett, and the widow respectively of Piers Braunche (d. 1296) and Walter de Norwich (d. 1329).
The first five membranes contain a day-to-day continuous record of the expenses of Katherine de Norwich’s household in food and provisions, known as a ‘diet account’. The account runs from 29 September (Michaelmas) 1336 (10 Edward III) to 10 April 1337 and is incomplete, as it would have continued to the end of the accounting year on Michaelmas 1337. Each entry includes the items and prices paid in cash, the corn and stock drawn from demesne manors, as well as items drawn from the stock of the household. It also records the expense of feeding thirteen paupers each day, as well as the cost of feeding the horses. The grand cash totals for each membrane are recorded at the foot of each dorse. The account was compiled by a single hand (see Household Accounts, ed. Woolgar (1992), I, p. 178).
The sixth and last membrane contains a ‘stock account’. This records an annual account of stock and other consumables purchased in bulk for Katherine’s household, and it covers the whole accounting year from Michaelmas 1336 to Michaelmas 1337.
For an edition and translation of this roll, see Household Accounts, ed. Woolgar (1992), I, pp. 179-227.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002199326
040-002199786 - Is part of:
- Add Ch 62771-63594 : CHARTERS AND ROLLS relating chiefly to cos. Norf. and Suff
Add Roll 63207 : Household roll of Katherine de Norwich - Hierarchy:
- 032-002199326[0140]/040-002199786
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Ch 62771-63594
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100177809544.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1336
- End Date:
- 1337
- Date Range:
- 29 September 1336-29 September 1337
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 770/920 x approximately 250 mm.
Arrangement: 6 membranes sewn at the top, Exchequer style.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Purchased by the British Museum at Sotheby's (Holt-Wilson sale), 11-12 April 1921, together with Add Chs and Rolls 62771-63594 and Add MSS 40061-40072.
- Publications:
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Dyer, C., Everyday Life in Medieval England, 2nd edition (London: Hambledon Press, 2000), p. 266.
Dyer, C., Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c.1200-1520 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 56.
Household Accounts from Medieval England, Part I, ed. C. M. Woolgar, Records of Social and Economic History, new series XVII (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 177-227 [edition].
Hutton, R., The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year 1400-1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 49-50.
Rutledge, E., ‘Norwich before the Black Death’, in C. Rawcliffe and R. Wilson (eds.), Medieval Norwich (London: Hambledon Press, 2004), p. 181.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)