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Appendix 3 - The Brus Charters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2012

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This appendix comprises a handlist of the known acts of the Brus lords of Skelton and Annandale made between 1100 and c. 1295, including notices of a few significant ‘lost acts’ to which specific reference is made in other records. It is, of course, possible to infer the existence of a large number of other grants, especially those made to their tenants in the early years of settlement, some of which may also have been the subject of documentary record. But these are too many and too indeterminable to be included. The list concludes with a group of fourteen grants relating to the Essex manors of the Annandale Bruses, almost all of which survive as original charters. Although the majority of these are dated 1295 × 1304 and are therefore outside the date-limits of this study, they form a homogenous group and provide interesting points of comparison with the main body of the grants.

There are a total of 197 identifiable acts listed, including the Essex charters, confirmations of earlier grants and notices of lost acts. Of these, 113 originate from the Yorkshire branch and 84 (including the 14 Essex charters) from Annandale. Some 70% of the grants were made to religious bodies, but there is a comparatively higher rate of lay grants from the lords of Annandale, 40% of their own total compared with 22% from the lords of Skelton.

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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2005

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