University Archives
Holderness Estates (H Stuart Moore)
Holderness was granted by the Norman kings to various counts including the count of Aumale (or Albemarle) who came from north-east Normandy. Knights of Holderness held their fees directly from them and were drawn from the families of Fauconberg, St Quinton and Ros, who provided military service in exchange. Holderness reverted to the crown in the time of Edward I and the seigniory then seems to have alternated between the crown and several landed families before coming into possession of the Constable family from the sixteenth century. Most of the Moore collection comprises transcripts of medieval or early-modern documents and includes extracts from the court rolls of the manor of Burstwick (intermittent 1368-1627), extracts from the court rolls of the manor of Easington, Kilnsea and Skeffling (1351-1539, 1571-1666), extracts from the court rolls of the manor of Skipsea (1562-1664), Paull (1598-1633) and Withernsea (1503-1658) and extracts from the court rolls of the Wapentake court (1502-1503, 1634-1661) and sheriff's tourn courts (1524-1666). There are copies of inquisitions (post mortem and ad quod damnum) comprising forty percent of the total collection (1254-1637) and translations of extracts from various accounts including ministers' accounts such as those for the sheriff of Holderness 1261-1264, the reeve of Burstwick 1268-1269 and the keeper of the king's lands in Holderness 1303-1307, extracts from various rolls comprising twenty-five percent of the collection and including originalia rolls and remembrancers' rolls and close rolls including papers related to the earl and countess of Albemarle and the Hildyard family and patent rolls including the 1280 grant with the town of Hedon in dower to Queen Eleanor (1130-1809). There are medieval papers for Bolton Priory, Bridlington Priory, Kirkstall Abbey, Meaux Abbey, St Martin's Abbey, Albemarle, St Mary's Abbey, York, Thornton Abbey and Warter Priory. [DHO]