Pilsgate is Part B (about half) of George Fraunceys’s Register of the sacrist relating to property in the Barnack area.
The Register, compiled about 1404, contains charters, rentals, terriers, mainly of the 13th and 14th centuries, principally for Pilsgate, (a hamlet of Barnack) and Bainton. Smaller amounts of material relate to the nearby places of Walcot, Southorpe, Stamford St Martins, Ufford, Helpston and Barnack. Some of the terriers are detailed with open-field topographical names. Many personal names are recorded as witnesses to the charters.
A detailed introduction is followed by a transcription of the Latin original text with a full English translation. The book is extensively indexed [90 pages] for persons, places and selected subjects. Two maps and three plates are included in this 600 page book.
Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Historical notes
- II The manuscript
- III This edition
- IV Bibliography and sources, with abbreviated forms used in the text
- V Conventions and practice
- VI Glossary
- TEXT AND TRANSLATION
- Preliminary material bound with the register and supplementing it
- The Register of George Fraunceys
- Appendix: Related fragmentary texts bound with the manuscript
- Indexes
- I Personal and Institutional Names
- II Place Names
- III Subjects
- Figures