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Documentary Evidence and the Medieval Pottery Industry

H. E. Jean Le Patourel
Pages 101-126 | Published online: 18 May 2016

  • I am greatly indebted to Mr. J. G. Hurst for constant help with the archaeological problems raised by this paper and to Mr. D. W. Crossley for many helpful suggestions.
  • Cal. Liberate Rolls, III, 6.
  • Rot. Parl., I, 243 ff.
  • J. T. Fowler (ed.), Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham, I (Surtees Soc., c, 1898), 533. The clay pitchers cost 3s., the price of the pewter ones is worn away.
  • W. F. Mumford, ‘Terciars on the estates of Wenlock Priory’, Trans. Shropshire Archaeol. Soc., LVIII (1965). 73.
  • A. R. Myers, The Household of Edward IV (1959), p. 183.
  • F. Collins (ed.), Freemen of York (Surtees Soc., XCVI, 1896), p. 218.
  • John de Housom of York (see below, p. 112) may have been a bell-founder (V.C.H., Yorks., III (1913), 292).
  • E.g., Simon Pottere of Bessington (Wilts.) was a butcher in 1242.
  • These are Torksey, Lines. (M. W. Barley in Antiq. J., XLIV, 1964, 175 ff.), Thetford, Norf. (excavated in the Saxon town by G. M. Knocker and by B. K. Davison) and Stamford. The pre-conquest kilns in Ipswich of middle Saxon date lie outside the scope of this article, but kilns making Thetford ware have also been found in the town.
  • I owe the information in this summary largely to Mr. J. G. Hurst.
  • Domesday Book, Bladon f. 156, Hasfield f. 168, Westbury f. 65.
  • Rot. Hundred., II (Record Comm.), 127.
  • V.C.H., Sussex, II (1907), 251.
  • C.J. Elton (ed.), Rentalia et Custumaria Michaelis de Ambresbury (Somerset Rec. Soc., v, 1891), p. 141.
  • B.M. Add. MS. 17450 shows that the dovo of the published version is a misprint. The original presents no difficulty.
  • Op. cit. in note 15, pp. 138–40.
  • W. de G. Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, III (1893), no. 890 (A.D. 951). It should not be impossible to locate this pottery, which occupied a clearing in Nedewood, from the boundaries given in the charter. Professor G. Barrow has drawn my attention to a large order of pots from Staffordshire in 1204 (Pipe Roll 7 John, 160); at IS. 2d. per hundred these might be either wood or clay.
  • Northern Stamford ware echoes the shapes of pottery from the Stamford region. For a discussion of its place of origin see G. G. Dunning in D. B. Harden (ed.), Dark-Age Britain: Studies presented to E. T. Leeds (1956), p. 230.
  • Winchester ware, identified by M. Biddle; see note by J. G. Hurst in Archaeol. J., CXIX (1962), 187–90.
  • F. M. Stenton (ed.), Charters relating to Gilbertine Houses (Lines. Rec. Soc., XVIII, 1922), p. 85.
  • W. H. Hale (ed.), Domesday Book of St. Pauls (Camden Soc., LXIX, 1858), p. 78.
  • Ibid., p. 90.
  • R. R. Darlington (ed.), The Cartulary of Darley Abbey (1945), I, 229.
  • M. Hollins (ed.), The Red Book of Worcester (Worcs. Historical Soc., 1934), pp. 37–8.
  • E.g., Annuaire des cinq départements de la Normandie (1952), p. 48.
  • E. B. Fryde in Engl. Historical Rev., LXXII (1957), 527.
  • Essex Record Office (henceforward cited as E.R.O.), D/DES, M. 67.
  • Ibid., M. I and M. 4.
  • A. E. Levett, Studies in Manorial History (1938), p. 346.
  • B.M. Cotton MS. Tiberius E. VI; Codicote Court Book, 12 Edw. I.
  • Sheffield City Lib., SCR. 28, 7 Ric. II.
  • Cal. Lib. Rolls, V, 256. The cups cost 4s. 6d., and at IS. 1 1/2d. per hundred may have been of wood.
  • The regional variations of one type of anthropomorphic decoration are discussed in Med. Archaeol., X (1966), 160–2.
  • Cal. Inq. Post Mortem, IX, 330.
  • In 1457 no clay payment was made because the potters were dead (Lambeth Palace Estate Documents, 1302) but in 1485 there were again seven working (ibid., 1311).
  • Leeds City Lib., Mexborough Collection, 32 Edw. III.
  • I owe this suggestion to Mr. D. W. Crossley.
  • Op. cit. in note 15, p. 134.
  • Med. Archaeol., VI-VII (1962–3), I ff.
  • Rot. Hund., II, 839. The rental is given ibid., 841.
  • Excavated by P. Mayes; report forthcoming. The date suggested by archaeomagnetic sampling of the level producing highly decorated pottery was c. 1350.
  • E.R.O., D/DES, M.4.
  • P.R.O., DL. 29, 507/8227.
  • The earlier kilns were excavated in 1958 and 1967, the later in 1967.
  • Lines. Record Office (henceforward cited as L.R.O.), Anc. 1, 18/1.
  • Ibid., 18/26.
  • M. Fauroux (ed.), Recueil des actes des ducs de Normandie (1961), pp. 343–4.
  • Rot. Hund., I, 420 and 423.
  • M. Sellers (ed.), York Memorandum Book (Surtees Soc., CXX, 1912), pp. 150–1.
  • A. Parker, ‘Nottingham pottery’, Trans. Thoroton Soc., XXVI (1932), 79.
  • G. Unwin, The Guilds of London (1925), pp. 370–1.
  • G. Fagniez, L'Industrie à Paris (1877), p. 18.
  • Rot. Hund., II, 417.
  • Excavated in 1962 by Doncaster City Museum; report forthcoming. See Med. Archaeol., X (1966), 162 and 218.
  • Cal. Inq. Post Mortem, IX, 48, and P.R.O., SC 6, 1077/33.
  • Rot. Parl., I, 265. Thomas le Poter is recorded in Kingswood outside the town in 1273.
  • E.R.O., D/DES, M. 1.
  • W. H. D. Longstaffe and J. Booth (ed.), Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (Surtees Soc., LXXXII, 1889), p. 127.
  • L.R.O., Anc. I, 18/26.
  • Information kindly supplied by Mrs. E. Gooder.
  • Rot. Hund., I, 22.
  • Ibid., II, 841.
  • L. F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages (2 ed., 1923), p. 173.
  • Excavated by B. Hope-Taylor. Illustration in G. Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and T. I. Williams, A History of Technology, II (1956), 285, fig. 266.
  • See note 63. New Woodstock was in the parish of Bladon, and was founded on waste ground outside the park. It is possible that the Bladon potters of Domesday were in the immediate vicinity of the 12th-century new town.
  • S. R. Scargill-Bird, Custumals of Battle Abbey (Camden Soc., XLI, 1887), p. 145.
  • L. R. O., Anc. I, 18/33, 18/27, 18/59.
  • Sheffield City Lib., SCR. 28, 7 Ric. II.
  • Op. cit. in note 64, p. 177.
  • P.R.O., SC 6 105/05, /6, /7.
  • Ibid., 1147/23.
  • Sheffield City Lib., SCR. 28, 37 Edw. III.
  • Ibid., 19/20 Ric. II.
  • Yorks. Archaeol. Soc., MS. 495, 1.
  • Leeds City Lib., Mexborough Collection, 18–31 Edw. III.
  • L.R.O., Anc. I, 18/50.
  • F. R. Chapman (ed.), Sacrist Rolls of Ely, 11 (1957), 93.
  • F. W. Brooks in J. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc., 3 ser., IV (1939), 170.
  • E.R.O., D/DP, M. 1154.
  • Professor A. L. Roberts of Leeds University considers that ashes of the three fuels will be readily distinguishable on analysis.
  • L.R.O., Anc. I, 18/31.
  • Information from Dr. W. Janssen.
  • Cal. Close Rolls, 1264–68, p. 32.
  • Cal. Lib. Rolls, VI, 169.
  • Ibid., 76.
  • Ibid., II, 185.
  • J. Webb (ed.), A Roll of the Household Expences of Richard de Swinfield (Camden Soc., old ser., LXI, 1853), p. 47.
  • J. Raine (ed.), The Fabric Rolls of York Minster (Surtees Soc., 1859), p. 48.
  • L. C. Loyd, Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families (Harleian Soc., CIII, 1951), p. 81.
  • Antig. J., XLVI (1966), 264.

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