English Eel-Rents: Tenth-Seventeenth Centuries – Historia Cartarum

The English paid massive numbers of eels in lease, and the information right here is damaged down by century. Mixed, the extant eel rents within the archives present the next:
Century(s) | Variety of Extant Rental Agreements | Variety of Eels Due |
Tenth-Eleventh | 221 | 539,785 |
twelfth | 49 | 60,052 |
thirteenth | 40 | 453,240 |
14th | 32 | 33,997 |
Fifteenth-Seventeenth | 13 | 13,179 |
It is very important notice right here that the division by century is considerably arbitrary, and that the mapped eel-rents in a given century don’t mirror all extant rents on the time. What are mapped listed below are locations the place eel-rents seem within the historic report in some capability. However lively eel-rents typically go centuries between archival mentions; they most frequently solely seem after they have been created, after they have been ended, or when there was an issue. Some rents solely seem when they’re cancelled; a scarcity of archival report doesn’t point out, by itself, {that a} lease didn’t exist or was inactive.
Interactive Map
This can be a map of recorded English eel-rents and funds from the late Tenth century by way of the Seventeenth century. A lot of the Domesday-era information is taken from the information collected by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and George Slater, College of Hull, and made public by way of the the Hull Domesday Project.
Any eel-rent famous as having one eel due signify a spot the place the report is unclear in regards to the variety of eels due (such because the lease due for the mill at Wolvey in 1251, which referred to as for the mill to pay 1/2 of all of the fish and eels caught there to Ivo de Dene). In every of those instances, the precise variety of eels due virtually definitely exceeded one.
Hovering over any single location will give you primary details about the eel-rents from that place. Clicking on a location will name up a extra thorough account, together with notes and quotation info. You may toggle centuries on and off by way of the menu on the facet.
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