The Annals of West Coker

Matthew Nathan

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139106764

After a life of public service Sir Matthew Nathan retired to the Manor of West Coker near Yeovil in Somerset. He developed a keen interest in his new home; he began first to read about it, then to deepen and widen his research, and then to turn his knowledge into this connected account, which was originally published in 1957. The local sources - the manorial records of his own estate, the parish and county records - were very rich. With great thoroughness he incorporated them in a local history of the area up to the nineteenth century. Nearly all the forces which affect the affairs of the nation can be traced in the records of the area. It is local and amateur history, but of the best calibre, and there is much to interest historians interested in local records. These are liberally quoted and there are detailed maps.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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LIST OF MAPS
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AUTHOR'S PREFACE
pp ix-x
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EDITOR'S PREFACE
pp xi-xii
- By M. M. Postan, Peterhouse, Cambridge
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FOREWORD
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I - SOUTH SOMERSET IN EARLY AGES
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II - SOUTH SOMERSET IN SAXON AND DANISH TIMES
pp 17-48
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III - COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NORMAN KINGS
pp 49-62
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IV - COKER IN THE TIME OF THE DE MANDEVILLES (circa 1140–1308)
pp 63-85
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V - COKER IN THE TIME OF THE FIRST COURTENAYS (1308–1391)
pp 86-143
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VI - WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE LATER COURTENAYS (1391–1442)
pp 144-201
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VII - WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NEW MEN (1556–91)
pp 202-232
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VIII - WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE PORTMANS (1591–1727)
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IX - WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE BERKELEY PORTMANS (1728–1829)
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I - Abstract from Domesday Book giving tenure of lands in the neighbourhood of Somerton, T.R.E. and T.R.W.
pp 455-458
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II - Domesday entry of Coker
pp 459-459
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III - Extracts from Neustria Pia with reference to the claim of St Stephen's Abbey, Caen, to have been granted the Manor of Coker
pp 460-461
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IV - A bailiff's account of the Manor of West Coker, 1309
pp 462-466
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V - Extent of East Coker Manor, 1321
pp 467-478
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VI - (i) Assessments for a twentieth, 1 Edward III, for East Coker and West Coker
pp 479-480
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VII - Accounts of West Coker Manor: (i) 1422; (ii) 1425
pp 481-483
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VIII - Indictment of persons charged with burning down George Middleton's house at West Coker on 1 September 1457
pp 484-484
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IX - The Coker family out of south Somerset, 1285–1498
pp 485-491
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X - Abbot Beere's survey of abbey lands in West Coker, 1507
pp 492-492
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XI - Accounts of West Coker Manor, 1527
pp 493-495
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XII - (i) Assessments for fifteenths and tenths for East Coker and West Coker, 10 Edw. III to 39 Eliz
pp 496-503
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XIII - West Coker cases of debt or trespass in the Court of Common Pleas. From Trinity 1597 to Trinity 1604
pp 504-507
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XIV - (i) Assessments for subsidies 13, 35 and 39 Eliz., 18 Jac. I, 3 and 16 Car. I, 13 and 15 Car. II, for West Coker
pp 508-510
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XV - Deliveries of West Country canvas, 1634–72
pp 511-511
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