Chelsing

Update: Walter le Baud’s accounts for the Templars’ estates in Herts. and Essex, January to February 1308

Posted on 23 February 2016 by Helen Nicholson

Walter le Baud year one Essex and Herts The fields around Temple Sutton, Essex. Photo: N2 Productions Update: I've transcribed Walter le Baud's accounts for the Templars' former lands in […]

Hertfordshire accounts: Chelsing, Lannock and Dinsley

Posted on 17 February 2016 by Helen Nicholson

I have transcribed the 1308 accounts drawn up for the Templars' former estates in Hertfordshire -- Chelsing, Lannock and Dinsley, and the market dues received from Baldock --  by the […]

Women workers on the Templars’ estates

Posted on 19 January 2016 by Helen Nicholson

A quick glance through the accounts of the Templars' estates while they were in King Edward II's hands suggests that there were very few women employed. The cook who made […]

Feeding the workers: potage and mixture

Posted on 6 October 2015 by Helen Nicholson

Let them eat porridge! In her study Temple Balsall, The Warwickshire preceptory of the Templars and their Fate (Chichester: Phillimore, 1995), Eileen Gooder discussed the payments to farm workers: cash […]