An Edition of the Accounts of the Manor of Bickley, Cheshire, 1395-1465
The Book
The Bickley accounts were produced by the administrators of an estate of a medieval Cheshire magnate, originally members of the St Pierre family of Peckforton, and later the Cokesey family of Worcestershire. This book provides the full text and translation of the accounts and an extensive introduction, providing context for the way the accounts are constructed and associated administration. In spite of the increasing recognition of the distinctiveness and importance of Cheshire’s palatinate community in the wider political and military affairs of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the economic and social underpinnings of the political society of Cheshire are relatively little understood. Most of the surviving material of this kind is a product of the administration of the earls of Chester, and so the Bickley accounts offer a rare insight into other estate management in the shire.
The Author
Matt Bazley is an archives professional who currently works as an archivist for a Central Government Department and was formerly Collections Officer for Northamptonshire County Record Office. He has a degree in History from the University of East Anglia, and a Masters in Archives and Records Management from the University of Liverpool, which he completed with distinction. His research interests include the Black Death and its effects on a local level in manorial records and medieval military history.
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