SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY 



Teddington for the years immediately following the plague year. The post mortem inqui- 

 sitions do not help us at all ; there are no more of them for 1348 and 1349 than for other 

 years, and the owners of estates who died held lands in other counties as well, and it is not 

 certain, and in some cases not even probable, that they died in Middlesex at all. Then the 

 registers of institutions to benefices, which are generally so useful in estimating the plague 

 mortality (Seebohm and Rogers, Fortnightly Rev. ii, iii, iv), are missing for the diocese of 

 London for the years 1337-61. Materials for the history of the Peasants' Revolt, so far as 

 it concerns Middlesex and Middlesex men, are found in Walsingham's Historia Anglicana 

 and the Gesta Abbatum, in John of Malvern, in Froissart, and in the Anominalle Cronicle, first 

 printed in the original French by Trevelyan (Engl. Hist. Rev. 1898), and in a translation 

 by Professor Oman in his Peasants' Revolt. There is also an account of the burning of 

 the houses at Highbury and Knightsbridge in Stow's Annals. The two latest modern authori- 

 ties on the rebellion are, of course, the late Andre Reville and Professor Oman. The 

 former writer (R6ville, Le Soulevement des Travailleurs d'Angleterre en 1381, App. ii, 199-215, 

 225, &c.) has collected and printed all the unpublished records concerning the revolt in the 

 several districts. These consist chiefly in the indictments in the king's courts of the rebels, 

 in escheators* accounts of their confiscated effects, and in Patent and Close Rolls containing 

 orders for inquiries, appointments of commissions to try the rebels and of keepers of the peace. 

 A list of the rebels excluded from the general pardon is printed in the Rolls of Parliament. 

 The poll tax returns for the county are not extant. (Oman, Peasants' 1 Revolt, 158.) 



For the Markets and Fairs Palmer's Index (and the Report of the Commission on Market 

 Rights and Tot/s, vol. liii, 1 88) gives a list of all grants and references to the originals in 

 Charter and Close Rolls, &c., and Middleton's Agriculture in Middlesex and Owen's New Book 

 of Fairs record the later survivals of these early markets. 



Norden in his Speculum Britanniae gives a good general description of the county, but no 

 details as to inclosures. For these there are only two mutilated membranes, in the Record 

 Office, of the depopulation returns made by Henry VIII's commission in 1517, as well as a 

 list, also fragmentary, of suburban inclosures in a Lansdowne manuscript in the British 

 Museum. Another Lansdowne paper contains some information about inclosure disputes and 

 regulations for the preservation of the chase at Enfield. Middlesex owes to the Middlesex 

 Record Society the publication of an abstract of the County Sessions Rolls, from the reign of 

 Edward VI to 1709, made by Messrs. Jeaffreson (4 volumes) and Hardy (i volume). These 

 rolls are a mine of valuable information as to vagrant and poor laws, plague measures, the 

 dangers of the neighbourhood of London owing to highway robbery, &c. Some Caesar papers 

 in the British Museum contain valuable information about the poor law and so do the Domestic 

 State Papers. 



A good deal of information about the alien immigrations into the suburbs of London has 

 been brought together by the Huguenot Society, in their Publications, chiefly derived from 

 returns of Aliens and Lay Subsidy Rolls. 



Finally, the reports on the county made to the Board of Agriculture in the later years of 

 the eighteenth, and early years of the succeeding century are our chief sources of infor- 

 mation for the agricultural conditions in the county, inclosures and wages at that period. 



