Template:Did you know nominations/Red Book of Worcester
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 21:12, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
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Red Book of Worcester
- ... that the high number of free tenants recorded in the 1299 Red Book of Worcester may be a result of manumissions granted by Bishop Godfrey Giffard? Source: "Four manors were considered in detail – Kempsey, Bredon, Northwick and Wick. While all of these had free tenants in their thirteenth-century populations (forming, on average, fortyone percent of their populations) only Northwick had recorded radmen in 1086. It is unlikely that this particular example is evidence of under-recording in Domesday. Bishop Godfrey Giffard, who had commissioned the survey, had been accused of granting too many manumissions and of leasing out land on too easy terms, a practice adopted because of a surplus of labour. It is for this reason that there were so many free tenants on the lands of Worcester in the thirteenth century and this may not be representative of the situation at the time of Domesday" from: Day, Emma (12 January 2011). "Sokemen and Freemen in Late Anglo-Saxon East Anglia in Comparative Context". PhD dissertation. Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. p. 259. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 11:06, 3 March 2022 (UTC).
- Dumelow, I will review this shortly. TSventon (talk) 09:23, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
- Dumelow,
the article is newly created, well written, long enough, neutral, with no BLP problems, contains appropriate citations, does not contain overly close paraphrasing. The hook is interesting and short enough. A QPQ has been done and looks fine. TSventon (talk) 10:31, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
