Microfilmed Medieval Records of the Manor of Maidstone

Microfilm copies of medieval estate documents relating to the manor of Maidstone have been added to the collections at the Centre for Kentish Studies at Maidstone.

The original court rolls, rentals, and account rolls of various ministers and receivers are held at Lambeth Palace Library. These have been filmed by Academic Microforms Ltd.

The microfilms of these documents will complement other Maidstone manorial records already held at CKS, especially those dating from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries in the Romney collection, U1644.

Additional funding for the project has been provided by sponsorship from P. & D.J. Goacher, brewers of Maidstone, and a grant from the Allen Grove Local History Fund through the Kent Archaeological Society.

The documents involved are listed in Jane Sayers’ catalogue, ‘Estate Documents at Lambeth Palace Library’. They are as follows:

• Court rolls - Courts (hallmoots & portmoots) and views (including 4 drafts)
• Maidstone 1382-1522, (a few including courts at Charing, courts, hundreds, and views at Boughton, Calhill, Gillingham and Teynham): ED.619-655 incl.
• Rental of c.1509-10, Maidstone: MS. 1025(1)
• Accounts (Serjeant, Reeve, Keeper, Parker and Farmer) 1279-1447: ED.656-680 incl., & ED.878 (ED.669 is a rental, temp.Richard II)
• Ministers account rolls and vouchers for the Bailiwick of Maidstone, (incl. Boughton, Charing, Gillingham and Teynham 1350-1522): ED.1222-1239 incl., & ED.1249
• Receivers accounts for Bailiwicks of Maidstone, Aldington, Otford, Wingham, or Croydon 1459-60, 1464-65, (1467-68 included in ED.1229), 1479-80, 1508-09, 1518-19, 1522-23 and receipt 1525-26: ED.1346, 1347, 1351, 1362, 1364, 1368, & 1366A
• Valor by bailiwicks (Aldington, Croydon, Maidstone, South Malling, Otford, Pagharn and Wingham) 1422: ED.2063