Wigmore Hundred Court rolls

"These scrolls preserve the proceedings of twelve meetings of the manorial court at Wigmore held in 1453-4. Directly controlled by the crown since 1424, Wigmore manor was home to a weekly market, an Augustinian abbey, some hundred farms and several breweries." -- Description provided by bookseller.

In Collection:

• Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection

Subject

• Feudal law
• Court records
• Manorial courts
• Landlords
• Meetings
• Feudal courts

Publisher

• Wigmore [England] : [producer not identified]

Identifier

• Call Number: KD8295 .H47 W54 1454

Date created

• 1453 to 1454

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 1 roll (2 sheets) ; parchment ; 720 x 255 mm

Alternative title

• Wiggemo[re] Burgus Hundred tente ib[ide]m die sabb[at]i vi die Octobr[is] Anno r[egni] Henr[ici] Sexti post conqui[stam] xxxii.

Geographic Coverage

• England--Wigmore (Herefordshire)

Coordinates

• 52.31474, -2.85802

Additional physical characteristics

• Manuscript rolls.
• Script: English Gothic documentary cursive hand in brown ink; text on both sides of sheets.
• The two sheets are attached together at the top with a twisted vellum thong.

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection

Provenance

• Purchased from McKittrick Rare Books on the Medieval Manuscript Fund and the Special Collections Fund, 2025.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• manuscripts (documents)
• court rolls
• parchment (animal material)
• vellum (parchment)

Date digitized

• November 2025

Technical note

• Item *extremely* difficult to work with. Scanned under glass on the Betterlight TTI (1/15; 287; bent 5; camera height 900). Glare on one image removed digitally (original = 001, edited = 001e). Due to curl, separate photos taken of top line of text on each page that curls over. Scanned front and back of both pages. Digitizing by PD. Metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/rvjt-6k54