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Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 2: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament, 1259 to the Commencement of the Continental War, 1793; 1259 1400
Kent, Hants, Durham, Northumberland, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Bucks, Surrey, Wilts, and Oxfordshire and accounts from all these estates are preserved in abundance among the College archives. No series indeed is complete, but the amount derived from each locality, as will be seen by glancing at the Index, is as a rule more copious and continuous than that from any other places.
Queen's College has afforded only one set of farming accounts, those, namely, of God's House in Southampton, the bedesmen and sisters of which possessed the manor of Gussage in Dorset. The fullest of these Southampton accounts long precede the foundation of Queen's College, and belong to a time when God's House was an inde pendent corporation.
New College has supplied information for the later portion of this inquiry. The archives of this society are in the very best condition, but, with one exception, give no evidence before the reign of Richard the Second. The exception is the manor of Heyford Warren in Oxfordshire. This estate was purchased by Wykeham from the Lisles, and some of the more ancient records were transferred at the time of purchase to the founder of New College, probably as evidence of title. They are thirteen in number. The New College estates are situated in Essex, Oxfordshire, Wilts, and Bucks.
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