Interpretations, please?

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marshall kirk

Interpretations, please?

Legg inn av marshall kirk » 08 sep 2004 14:25:25

Dear group,

A collaborator and I have been informed by a record-searcher in
England that a certain (male) individual was "entered" into manorial
court records in 1543, and that this meant that he was 12 at the time,
and therefore born 1530-1. Question: is our record-searcher's
interpretation (as to the individual's age at "entry" into the court
records) correct? If so, should it be taken as fairly rigid and
precise, or were there circumstances that might result in such "entry"
at an earlier or later age? This is a new one for me, and (due to
illness and overwork) I have no ready access at this time to handbooks
on manorial-court customs and practices. I'm also hampered by not
having seen the communique itself, and wonder whether the intended
meaning was perhaps 'MUST HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 12.'----A sharing of
expertise on this subject would be welcomed, and no doubt not only by
me.

Thanks,

--mk

Tim Powys-Lybbe

Re: Interpretations, please?

Legg inn av Tim Powys-Lybbe » 08 sep 2004 14:45:08

In message of 8 Sep, mkkirk@rcn.com (marshall kirk) wrote:

Dear group,

A collaborator and I have been informed by a record-searcher in
England that a certain (male) individual was "entered" into manorial
court records in 1543, and that this meant that he was 12 at the time,
and therefore born 1530-1. Question: is our record-searcher's
interpretation (as to the individual's age at "entry" into the court
records) correct?

Each manor had its own "customs". So you have to discover what were the
practices of the particular manor court. This means getting someone to
transcribe some archaic documents that talk of archaic practces...

If so, should it be taken as fairly rigid and
precise, or were there circumstances that might result in such "entry"
at an earlier or later age? This is a new one for me, and (due to
illness and overwork) I have no ready access at this time to handbooks
on manorial-court customs and practices. I'm also hampered by not
having seen the communique itself, and wonder whether the intended
meaning was perhaps 'MUST HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 12.'----A sharing of
expertise on this subject would be welcomed, and no doubt not only by
me.

--
Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org
For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org

Chris Dickinson

Re: Interpretations, please?

Legg inn av Chris Dickinson » 08 sep 2004 19:18:29

marshall kirk wrote:

A collaborator and I have been informed by a record-searcher in
England that a certain (male) individual was "entered" into manorial
court records in 1543, and that this meant that he was 12 at the time,
and therefore born 1530-1. Question: is our record-searcher's
interpretation (as to the individual's age at "entry" into the court
records) correct?
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I wonder whether your researcher meant 'admitted'?

In which case, the individual would have been admitted to a tenancy in the
manor (in other words, he became the official customary tenant). I wasn't
aware that there were any age restrictions on this, though, as Tim
Powys-Lybbe has already commented, customs varied from manor to manor.

Chris

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