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Devon Monastic Lands
  • Calendar of Particulars for Grants 1536–1558
  • Volume 1
  • Edited by Joyce Youings
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 March 2020
    Print publication:
    01 January 1955
  • This volume presents the surveys and valuations of all the monastic lands in Devon which were disposed of by the Crown after the dissolution of the monasteries, a redistribution of land which had major social and economic implications. It is a valuable source for historians of society and economy in the sixteenth century and includes a detailed introduction by the editor, a leading expert in the history of Devon.

  • Active Surveillance and Decolonization of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus on Admission to Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Hong Kong: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

  • Joyce H. S. You, C. Y. Chan, M. Y. Wong, Margaret Ip
  • Journal:
    Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 33 / Issue 10 / October 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 1024-1030
    Print publication:
    October 2012
  • Objective.

    To examine potential clinical outcomes and cost of active methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) surveillance with and without decolonization in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) from the perspective of healthcare providers in Hong Kong.

    Design.

    Decision analysis modeling.

    Setting.

    NICU.

    Patients.

    Hypothetical cohort of patients admitted to an NICU.

    Methods.

    We designed a decision tree to simulate potential outcomes of active MRSA surveillance with and without decolonization in patients admitted to an NICU. Outcome measures included total direct medical cost per patient, MRSA infection rate, and MRSA-associated mortality rate. Model inputs were derived from the literature. Sensitivity analyses evaluated the impact of uncertainty in all model variables.

    Results.

    In the base-case analysis, active surveillance plus decolonization showed a lower expected MRSA infection rate (0.911% vs 1.759%), MRSA-associated mortality rate (0.223% vs 0.431%), and total cost per patient (USD 47,294 vs USD 48,031) compared with active surveillance alone. Sensitivity analyses showed that active surveillance plus decolonization cost less and had lower event rates if the incidence risk ratio of acquiring MRSA infections in carriers after decolonization was less than 0.997. In 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations, active surveillance plus decolonization was significantly less costly than active surveillance alone 99.9% of the time, and both the MRSA infection rate and the MRSA-associated mortality rate were significantly lower 99.9% of the time.

    Conclusions.

    Active surveillance plus decolonization for patients admitted to NICUs appears to be cost saving and effective in reducing the MRSA infection rate and the MRSA-associated mortality rate if addition of decolonization to active surveillance reduces the risk of MRSA infection.

    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2012;33(10):1024-1030

  • The Council of the West

  • Joyce A. Youings
  • Journal:
    Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 10 / December 1960
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 February 2009, pp. 41-59
    Print publication:
    December 1960

  • Nearly thirty years ago, Dr Caroline Skeel searched both the public records and local archives for material relating to the ‘Council in the West Parts of the Realm’ established by Henry VIII. She could find out practically nothing about its proceedings, but, in a paper read to this society, she did put forward a number of suggestions regarding the purpose of the council and the reasons for its comparatively short life. These suggestions have been the basis for the necessarily brief references to the Council of the West in subsequent histories of the period. It has become generally accepted that the council was established for the purpose of tightening up the machinery of justice and administration in an unsettled part of the kingdom, and in particular as a means of forestalling the trouble which was expected to follow the dissolution of the monasteries in the region. Its early disappearance has been attributed to various causes, sheer redundancy, local opposition and Henry's desire to placate the common lawyers.

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Joyce Youings
  • Book:
    Devon Monastic Lands
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 March 2020
    Print publication:
    01 January 1955, pp vii-xxxviii

  • Summary

    THE annexation by Henry VIII between 1536 and 1545 of the Property of the Religious Houses throughout the realm and the subsequent disposal of the greater part of their landed estates ty Henry and his immediate successors was a far greater administrative operation than any hitherto undertaken by the English government. It left behind a mass of records of great historical value, including the series classified by the Public Record Office as Exchequer: Augmentation Office; Particulars for Grants (E 318). These bundles of parchment membranes, each bundle normally relating to a single royal grant, contain not only brief survey of the estates concerned, including thereby much information about economic conditions and local topography, but also details of the calculations which lay behind the terms on which each portion of the property was alienated. Thus they amplify considerably the contents of the letters patent under the Great Seal of England wherein the royal gifts, exchanges and sales of monastic land were recorded and as a series throw a good deal of light upon what turned out to be the main administrative process of the newly–erected court of Augmentations. As long ago as 1848–9 descriptive lists of the particulars for grants made by Henry VIII were published and these have since been continued in manuscript, together with a comprehensive index locorum, to cover the reigns of Edward VI–Charles I. On the whole, however, surprisingly little use has been made of these documents by historians and very few have been printed.

    This volume presents a calendar of all surviving particulars relating to grants made by the crown between 1536 and the end of Mary's reign of former monastic property lying within the boundaries of sixteenth century Devon. The series is fairly complete: out of a total of 138 separate grants which can be established from the patent rolls and other sources, 106 are supported by complete particulars and in 10 other cases remnants at least have survived.