We now, in 2015, stand on the threshold of the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. A document signed by King John in 1215 after pressure from the Barons - not to mention the church - speaks of freedom and liberty. King John was a very unpopular King and was eventually pushed into a tight corner at Runnymede where he was encouraged to sign the document we recognize today. As a legal document, the Magna Carta has never been revoked and English law is founded on its beliefs.
The word 'Inspeximus' means literally in Latin = 'We have inspected' and comes from the right of land owners to show that what they have is legally theirs. At Domesday, a record was taken of all land holdings (manors) and what they consisted of; from people to livestock and woodland. In later years, a re-visitation took place and in 1381 when King Richard II was on the throne, an Inspeximus grant of Walkhampton manor took place to certify ownership. Walkhampton was a Royal Manor and the premier lead manor of The Roborough Hundred. Plymouth barely existed and was just a small fishing village called Sutton.
Time has moved on and much has changed. However, to hold the 1381 Inspeximus grant in the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office was quite a special feeling. So much can be learnt from our surroundings. We just need to know how to look.
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Friday, 19 September 2014
Lee Furneaux Books of Tavistock now stocking copies of Inspeximus
Lee Furneaux Books of Tavistock in Devon is now stocking copies of Inspeximus: Poetry from the Manors of The Roborough Hundred.
Thursday, 4 September 2014
Inspeximus: Poetry from the Manors of The Roborough Hundred by Ruth Snell
Inspeximus: Poetry from the Manors of The Roborough Hundred by Ruth Snell. ISBN: 978-1-78132-302-1. Published by Silverwood Books of Bristol with a release date of 6 October 2014.
... Re-examines an area in south west Devon where the bustling community around Buckland Monachorum was once more heavily populated than any of the Plymouth manors. Moving from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Norman Conquest and beyond, the unusual genre of weaving poetry from manorial and local history seeks to peer into the past through a searching tangent of the imagination. Each manor had its own story to tell and was occupied and worked by colourful personalities.
Here in the early 21st century with so much destroyed by either war or development, a stop to pause and look by physically visiting former manorial sites and envisaging how people would have lived, offers a tangible breath of the past.
... Re-examines an area in south west Devon where the bustling community around Buckland Monachorum was once more heavily populated than any of the Plymouth manors. Moving from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Norman Conquest and beyond, the unusual genre of weaving poetry from manorial and local history seeks to peer into the past through a searching tangent of the imagination. Each manor had its own story to tell and was occupied and worked by colourful personalities.
Here in the early 21st century with so much destroyed by either war or development, a stop to pause and look by physically visiting former manorial sites and envisaging how people would have lived, offers a tangible breath of the past.
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