Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 28347
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  • Contributor(s): Eric James Gallagher, translator
  • Title: The prioress of Campsey [Ash] presented herself… [Item 903 from the hundred of Blything concerns the women’s monastery of Campsey in Suffolk. The prioress entered a plea asking that William the Fleming discharge her from services and customs on the tenement she held from him. The services were demanded by the earl of Norfolk. For other cases involving the priory of Campsey see items 557 and 932. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
  • Source: The Civil Pleas of the Suffolk Eyre of 1240.  Edited by Eric James GallagherSuffolk Records Society, 52.  Boydell Press , 2009.  Pages 188 - 188.
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  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Campsey, Suffolk, England- Monastery of Augustinian Canonesses Courts of Law Economics Monasticism Rolls, Official Documents- Court Rolls Vassalage Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 13
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  • Year of Publication: 2009.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781843834335