Durham cathedral priory as a landowner and a landlord, 1290 - 1540

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This essay is based primarily upon three classes of administrative record: the annual account rolls of the eight obedientiaries who between than managed the priory's property: their rentals, which relate in detail what their accounts summarize: and the records of the several courts, particularly the halmote. Other records, although used and consulted, have not been subjected to systematic scrutiny. These documents have determined the period covered by tne essay in that few have survived from the years before 1290, while after 1540 the prior and convent was replaced bylaw dean and chapter. The essential purpose of the essay is to provide a broad and general account of the fortunes of one of the greatest estates of medieval England. Regrettably because of the length of the period covered, it has proved impossible to give full and proper attention to work of individuals; this important task should be facilitated, however, by the existence of a general account. In form the essay is divided

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