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For updating Mapley family records...
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==> David Mapley,
Suite 21
5 River Road
Wilton, CT 06897, USA |
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Tel: 1(203) 563-9430
Fax: 1(203) 563-9832 |
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Hundred Rolls, 1255 & 1274
The Hundred Rolls are the documentary result of a 13th-century Crown inquiry or census into
the rights of the English monarchy over land and property in the Hundreds (regional sub-divisions) of the
English & Welsh counties.
Henry III had ordered an inquiry into franchises in 1255, and Edward I continuing the move to assert
Crown authority at local level in 1274, after he returned to England from the Ninth Crusade. During this
time the country had suffered civil war during the Second Barons' War and local government malpractice
and usurpation of Royal rights and privileges. As a result, an inquiry was to be made into the status
of the king’s rights which, in some cases, had been appropriated "by lay and ecclesiastical lords"
(who had used them to strengthen their power over feudal tenants), and also "into the excessive
demands of sheriffs, escheators and coroners, and also of bailiffs and other officials, whether
royal or seigniorial.
Two commissioners were appointed in October 1274, for each group of counties, undertaking their
survey from November 1274 to March 1275.
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