Studies and Notes Supplementary to Stubbs' Constitutional History Down to the Great Charter (Volume 22) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... CAUSES AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RISING OF 1381. Stubbs' account of the rising of 1381 has been more completely superseded than any other part of his second volume. An entirely new light has been thrown on the history of the rebellion and its causes by researches in English records, particularly the judicial and financial collections of the Record Office. The pioneer in this work was a Frenchman, Andr Reville. This young scholar, who died in 1894 at the age of twenty-seven, presented, in 1890, to the examiners of I'Ecole des Ckartes a dissertation on the rebellion in Hertfordshire, Suffolk, and Norfolk. To the end of his life he continued his elaborate researches in preparation of the general work in which he hoped to describe the causes and the various aspects of the movement. Two years after the death of Reville, Mr. Edgar Powell published a little book on the rebellion in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and Norfolk,1 and in 1897 an American student of the University of Leipsic, Mr. T. W. Page, wrote an essay on the commutation of the labour services, and refuted the theory of Rogers concerning the causes of the rising of 1381.2 Reville's manuscripts were entrusted to me, and on them I based a volume which appeared in 1898, and which still remains the most valuable source of information on the rising as a whole.3 But I cannot be satisfied with merely 1. The Rising in East Anglia in 1381, with an Appendix containing the Suffolk Poll Tax Lists for that year. 2. Die Umwandlung der Frohndienste in Geldrenten in den aestlichen, mittleren und sudlichen Graftschaften England (1897). I did not know of Mr. Page's essay in time to make use of it in my work of 1898. Mr. Page subsequently published an English edition of his study: The End of Villainage in E...