Abstract
In the course of their lives many jurors had memories of events, their own doings, or things of passing interest that looked beyond the usual boundaries of village life. Several sets of memories centered on activities that led to a new life style, whether in or near the village, in a physical sense, or elsewhere in the realm. These were putting a son into an apprenticeship and having a relative, male or female, enter a house of regular religion or a friary. Another activity that by definition went beyond the village and that left a lasting impression was pilgrimage, and it might be just telling the fate of another who had done so. In addition, the dangers of war were often present, and a raid by the French or Scots, or the passing of Owen Glendower’s army—sacking the town, taking prisoners, being resisted as the king’s army passed by—were things that stayed fresh in the memory and were not infrequently offered at the Proof.
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In the next chapter we note several memories of “miracle cures” that took place at English sites.
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20/844: In the second memory (17/429) the jurors had only come from as far away as Bedford, so it was hardly a grand tour.
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19/782. This is the only pilgrimage memory that tells of a journey to two of the three major centers. Usually one holy site seems to have sufficed.
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25/127. The juror-pilgrim spoke at a Proof at Dorchester, Oxfordshire, so his journey was not a long one.
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16/947: 15/449.
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15/159: 19/999.
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18/1180: 19/1002.
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23/602.
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18/311. This seems to indicate both the monastic vows and ordination (22/677).
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15/450: 16/947.
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15/159: 22/827.
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15/660.
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25/127.
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19/785: 22/228. There was also a son who became a Franciscan at the house in York (15/893).
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15/893.
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23/419, with the relationship to the juror indicated by the names , rather than explicitly: 21/871, and for a similar brother-in-law memory, 21/876. Some of our jurors were of the social level that produced men who rose to high monastic office.
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23/422.
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24/721.
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20/846. It seems likely that the juror’s name—Bagshoth—and that of the late prioress—Bongesett—indicate a kinship link.
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25/351: 15/291.
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For a comparison, in the index of Vol. 16 of the Inquisitions Post Mortem, under “occupations,” the following are listed: apothecary, arblaster, brewer, butcher, cornchandler, draper, grocer, hurrer (“hurar”), maltmonger, ropemaker, “sherman” skinner, surgeon, vintner, waxchandler, and weaver.
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22/677.
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23/596.
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24/126.
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23/139.
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22/839.
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26/468.
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18/953.
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23/415. The heiress was 14 and the Proof was held on 2 December 1429.
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15/275: 19/392: 19/1001: 22/529.
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19/791: 23: 314.
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26/143.
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22/529.
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23/140: 20/184: 23/417.
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23/598.
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19/1002.
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24/721. This was a Lincolnshire Proof from 1436.
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18/854. The proof was taken on 27 May 1403 for an heir born on 21 May 1382.
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18/311.
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19/392. The Proof was held in 1408, regarding a birth in 1387. Visual evidence of the heir’s age was frequently cited in early Proofs but rarely seems of much importance by the time of Richard II (Vol.15 of the Inquisitions).
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25/295. The Proof was from 1438 and 1417, would have been the year of “the truces.”
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Rosenthal, J.T. (2018). Life Beyond the Village. In: Social Memory in Late Medieval England. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69700-0_6
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