SECONDARY WORKS
Borough Customary Law
General Works
Attreed, Lorraine. “Urban Identity in Medieval English Towns.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 32:4 (2002): 571-92.
Ballard, Adolphus. The English Borough in the Twelfth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914.
Bateson, Mary. Borough Customs. London: B. Quaritch, 1904 (vol.1) and 1906 (vol.2).
Britnell, R.H. “Burghal Characteristics of Market Towns in Medieval England.” Durham University Journal 73:2 (1981): 147-151.
Brand, Paul. “Local Custom in the Early Common Law.” In Law, Laity, and Solidarities: Essays in Honour of Susan Reynolds, edited by Pauline Stafford et al., 150-159. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.
Cam, Helen M. The Hundred and Hundred Rolls: An Outline of Local Government in Medieval England. London: Methuen, 1930.
Champion, W.A. “Litigation in the Boroughs: The Shrewsbury Curia Parva, 1480-1730.” Legal History 15 (1994): 201-222.
Clark, Elaine. “Medieval Labor Law and English Local Courts.” The American Journal of Legal History 27:4 (1983): 330-353.
_______. “City Orphans and Custody Laws in Medieval England.” The American Journal of Legal History 34:2 (1990): 168-187.
Cole, Sanford Darley. “English Borough Courts.” Law Quarterly Review 18 (1902): 376-87.
Gross, Charles. “The Court of Piepowder.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 20:2 (1906): 231-249.
_______.“Modes of Trial in the Medieval Boroughs of England.” Harvard Law Review 15 (1901): 691-706.
_______. “Mortmain in Medieval Boroughs.” The American Historical Review 12:4 (1907): 733-42.
Hemmeon, Morley de Wolf. Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914.
Jeudwine, John Wynne. Crime, Tort, and Police in Mediaeval Britain: A Review of Some Early Law and Custom. Williams and Norgate, 1917.
Kiralfy, Albert Kenneth Roland. “Custom in Mediaeval English Law.” In La coutume, deuxième partie: Europe occidentale médiévale et moderne, 379-402. Brussel: Société Jean Bodin pour l’histoire comparative des institutions, 1990.
Maitland, F.W. Township and Borough. Reprint: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
_______. “The Origin of the Borough.” The English Historical Review 11:41 (1896): 13-19.
Martin, G.H. “The English Borough in the Thirteenth Century.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 13 (1963): 123-144.
_______. “The Registration of Deeds of Title in the Medieval Borough.” In The Study of Medieval Records: Essays in Honour of Kathleen Major, edited D.A. Bullough and R.L. Storey, 151-73. Oxford, 1971.
McKisack, May. “Borough Representation in Richard II’s Reign.” The English Historical Review 39:156 (1924): 511-525.
Postles, David A. “Record-Keeping in the Medieval Borough: Proof of Wills.” Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association 16:69 (1983): 12-15.
Stephenson, Carl. “The Anglo-Saxon Borough.” The English Historical Review 45:178 (1930): 177-207.
_______. Borough and Town: A Study of Urban Origins in England. Cambridge: Medieval Academy of America, 1933.
Tait, James. “The Borough Community in England.” The English Historical Review 45:180 (1930): 529-551.
_______. The Medieval English Borough: Studies on Its Origins and Constitutional History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1936.
Ballard, Adolphus. The English Borough in the Twelfth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914.
Bateson, Mary. Borough Customs. London: B. Quaritch, 1904 (vol.1) and 1906 (vol.2).
Britnell, R.H. “Burghal Characteristics of Market Towns in Medieval England.” Durham University Journal 73:2 (1981): 147-151.
Brand, Paul. “Local Custom in the Early Common Law.” In Law, Laity, and Solidarities: Essays in Honour of Susan Reynolds, edited by Pauline Stafford et al., 150-159. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.
Cam, Helen M. The Hundred and Hundred Rolls: An Outline of Local Government in Medieval England. London: Methuen, 1930.
Champion, W.A. “Litigation in the Boroughs: The Shrewsbury Curia Parva, 1480-1730.” Legal History 15 (1994): 201-222.
Clark, Elaine. “Medieval Labor Law and English Local Courts.” The American Journal of Legal History 27:4 (1983): 330-353.
_______. “City Orphans and Custody Laws in Medieval England.” The American Journal of Legal History 34:2 (1990): 168-187.
Cole, Sanford Darley. “English Borough Courts.” Law Quarterly Review 18 (1902): 376-87.
Gross, Charles. “The Court of Piepowder.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 20:2 (1906): 231-249.
_______.“Modes of Trial in the Medieval Boroughs of England.” Harvard Law Review 15 (1901): 691-706.
_______. “Mortmain in Medieval Boroughs.” The American Historical Review 12:4 (1907): 733-42.
Hemmeon, Morley de Wolf. Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914.
Jeudwine, John Wynne. Crime, Tort, and Police in Mediaeval Britain: A Review of Some Early Law and Custom. Williams and Norgate, 1917.
Kiralfy, Albert Kenneth Roland. “Custom in Mediaeval English Law.” In La coutume, deuxième partie: Europe occidentale médiévale et moderne, 379-402. Brussel: Société Jean Bodin pour l’histoire comparative des institutions, 1990.
Maitland, F.W. Township and Borough. Reprint: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
_______. “The Origin of the Borough.” The English Historical Review 11:41 (1896): 13-19.
Martin, G.H. “The English Borough in the Thirteenth Century.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 13 (1963): 123-144.
_______. “The Registration of Deeds of Title in the Medieval Borough.” In The Study of Medieval Records: Essays in Honour of Kathleen Major, edited D.A. Bullough and R.L. Storey, 151-73. Oxford, 1971.
McKisack, May. “Borough Representation in Richard II’s Reign.” The English Historical Review 39:156 (1924): 511-525.
Postles, David A. “Record-Keeping in the Medieval Borough: Proof of Wills.” Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association 16:69 (1983): 12-15.
Stephenson, Carl. “The Anglo-Saxon Borough.” The English Historical Review 45:178 (1930): 177-207.
_______. Borough and Town: A Study of Urban Origins in England. Cambridge: Medieval Academy of America, 1933.
Tait, James. “The Borough Community in England.” The English Historical Review 45:180 (1930): 529-551.
_______. The Medieval English Borough: Studies on Its Origins and Constitutional History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1936.
Region Specific
Allen, David, ed. Ipswich Borough Archives, 1255-1835: A Catalogue. Suffolk Records Society, 43. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000.
Benham, W. Gurney. “Piepowder Courts in Colchester.” Essex Review 46 (1937): 204-209.
_______. “The Town Charters and Other Borough Records of Colchester.” The Archaeological Journal 64 (1907): 203-9.
Benson, J. “Village Borough Courts.” Devonshire Association Report and Transactions 79 (1948): 63.
Britnell, R.H. “Bailiffs and Burgesses in Colchester, 1400-1525.” Essex Archaeology and History 21 (1990): 103-109.
_______.“Colchester Courts and Court Records, 1310-1525.” Essex Archaeology and History 17 (1986): 133-140.
_______. “The Oath Book of Colchester and the Borough Constitution, 1372-1404.” Essex Archaeology and History 14 (1982): 94-101.
_______. Records of the Borough of Crossgate, Durham, 1312-1531. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2008.
Chew, Helena. “Mortmain in Medieval London.” The English Historical Review 60:236 (1945): 1-15.
Goddard, Richard. “Surviving Recession: English Borough Courts and Commercial Contraction, 1350-1500.” In Survival and Discord in Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer, edited by Richard Goddard et al., 69-87. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010.
Green, Angela. “Borough Records of Wallingford.” Journal of Social Archivist 2:10 (1964): 476-78.
Jones, Karen and Michael Zell. “Bad Conversation? Gender and Social Control in a Kentish Borough.” Continuity and Change 13:1 (1998): 11-31.
MacQueen, Hector L. and William J. Windram. “Law and Courts in the Burgh.” In The Scottish Medieval Town, 208-227. Edinburgh: J. Donald, 1988.
Martin, G.H. The Early Court Rolls of the Borough of Ipswich: Occasional Papers of the Department of English Local History. Leicester: University College of Leicester, 1954.
_______.“Essex Boroughs and their Records.” In An Essex Tribute: Essays Presented to Frederick G. Emmison as a Tribute to his Life and Work for Essex History and Archives, edited by Kenneth Neale, 27-45. London: Leopard’s Head Press, 1987.
McRee, Ben R. “Peacemaking and Its Limits in Late Medieval Norwich.” The English Historical Review 109 (1994): 831-66.
Mills, Judith. “Stephenson Revisted: A Fresh Look at Nottingham’s Borough Records, 1400-1600.” Transactions of the Thoroton Society 113 (2009): 55-72.
Muggeridge, G.D. “The Borough of Southwark.” Law Quarterly Review 46 (1930): 54-70.
Neville, Cynthia J. Violence, Custom, and Law: The Anglo-Scottish Border Lands in the Later Middle Ages. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
Nightingale, Pamela. “The Origin of the Court of Husting and Danish Influence on London’s Development as a Capital.” English Historical Review 102 (1987): 559-578.
Rohrkasten, Jens. “Conflict in a Monastic Borough: Coventry in the Reign of Edward II.” Midland History 18 (1993): 1-18.
Tucker, Penny. Law Courts and Lawyers in the City of London, 1300-1550. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Benham, W. Gurney. “Piepowder Courts in Colchester.” Essex Review 46 (1937): 204-209.
_______. “The Town Charters and Other Borough Records of Colchester.” The Archaeological Journal 64 (1907): 203-9.
Benson, J. “Village Borough Courts.” Devonshire Association Report and Transactions 79 (1948): 63.
Britnell, R.H. “Bailiffs and Burgesses in Colchester, 1400-1525.” Essex Archaeology and History 21 (1990): 103-109.
_______.“Colchester Courts and Court Records, 1310-1525.” Essex Archaeology and History 17 (1986): 133-140.
_______. “The Oath Book of Colchester and the Borough Constitution, 1372-1404.” Essex Archaeology and History 14 (1982): 94-101.
_______. Records of the Borough of Crossgate, Durham, 1312-1531. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2008.
Chew, Helena. “Mortmain in Medieval London.” The English Historical Review 60:236 (1945): 1-15.
Goddard, Richard. “Surviving Recession: English Borough Courts and Commercial Contraction, 1350-1500.” In Survival and Discord in Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer, edited by Richard Goddard et al., 69-87. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010.
Green, Angela. “Borough Records of Wallingford.” Journal of Social Archivist 2:10 (1964): 476-78.
Jones, Karen and Michael Zell. “Bad Conversation? Gender and Social Control in a Kentish Borough.” Continuity and Change 13:1 (1998): 11-31.
MacQueen, Hector L. and William J. Windram. “Law and Courts in the Burgh.” In The Scottish Medieval Town, 208-227. Edinburgh: J. Donald, 1988.
Martin, G.H. The Early Court Rolls of the Borough of Ipswich: Occasional Papers of the Department of English Local History. Leicester: University College of Leicester, 1954.
_______.“Essex Boroughs and their Records.” In An Essex Tribute: Essays Presented to Frederick G. Emmison as a Tribute to his Life and Work for Essex History and Archives, edited by Kenneth Neale, 27-45. London: Leopard’s Head Press, 1987.
McRee, Ben R. “Peacemaking and Its Limits in Late Medieval Norwich.” The English Historical Review 109 (1994): 831-66.
Mills, Judith. “Stephenson Revisted: A Fresh Look at Nottingham’s Borough Records, 1400-1600.” Transactions of the Thoroton Society 113 (2009): 55-72.
Muggeridge, G.D. “The Borough of Southwark.” Law Quarterly Review 46 (1930): 54-70.
Neville, Cynthia J. Violence, Custom, and Law: The Anglo-Scottish Border Lands in the Later Middle Ages. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
Nightingale, Pamela. “The Origin of the Court of Husting and Danish Influence on London’s Development as a Capital.” English Historical Review 102 (1987): 559-578.
Rohrkasten, Jens. “Conflict in a Monastic Borough: Coventry in the Reign of Edward II.” Midland History 18 (1993): 1-18.
Tucker, Penny. Law Courts and Lawyers in the City of London, 1300-1550. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
