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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Original Title Page 6 Original Copyright Page 7 Dedication 8 CONTENTS 14 PREFACE 10 ABBREVIATIONS 16 CHAPTER I: THE ROYAL DEMESNE IN NORMAN AND ANGEVIN GOVERNMENT 18 1. Royal demesne and tallage 18 2. ‘Ancient demesne’ 25 3. Royal demesne and parliamentary taxation 27 4. Royal demesne and land revenue 31 5. Royal demesne and patronage 35 6. Contrasts in the role of the Capetian domaine 39 7. Restraint of alienation in England and the genesis of ‘the king to live of his own’ 41 CHAPTER II: A NEW ROYAL PATRIMONY. THE PLANTAGENET FAMILY ESTAT E 1227–1399 53 1. Family endowments 53 2. Alienations outside the royal family 60 3. Finance and royal patronage 61 4. Exchequer and chamber administration 66 5. Parliamentary criticism 73 CHAPTER III: PATRONAGE, POLITICS AND FINANCE, I399-I43 7 77 1. Parliament and the act of resumption of 1404 77 2. The financial survey of 1433 90 CHAPTER IV: THE BACKGROUND TO THE RESUMPTIONS OF I45O-6 98 1. The royal lands and the spoils system under Henry VI 98 2. Resumption as the panacea for financial reform 113 3. The collapse of royal government, 1437–50 118 CHAPTER V: THE RESUMPTIONS OF 1450–6 125 1. The

Author

B.P. Wolffe;

Published

2019

Language

EN