Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- II.36 Duke Humfrey Sets Up Home: the King’s Grant of Furniture to His Son
- II.37 The Pennal Letter from Owain Glyndŵr, Prince of Wales, to the King of France
- II.38 Sermon Writing
- II.39 An Heir Proves He Can Inherit: Oral Testimony of Witnesses in Proof of Age Texts
- II.40 A Woman Is Tried for Heresy at Norwich: a Court Record
- II.41 Military Historiography
- II.42 A Miracle Associated with King Henry VI: a Painful Football Injury Is Healed
- II.43 The Black Death and Its Effects
- II.44 Forest Documents
- II.45 Manorial and Agricultural Documents
- II.46 Town Life and Trade: Administrative Documents
- II.47 Buildings: Construction and Reparation
- II.48 Royal and Ecclesiastical Accounts
- II.49 In the Courts
- II.50 Safeguarding, Accidents and Death
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
II.39 - An Heir Proves He Can Inherit: Oral Testimony of Witnesses in Proof of Age Texts
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- II.36 Duke Humfrey Sets Up Home: the King’s Grant of Furniture to His Son
- II.37 The Pennal Letter from Owain Glyndŵr, Prince of Wales, to the King of France
- II.38 Sermon Writing
- II.39 An Heir Proves He Can Inherit: Oral Testimony of Witnesses in Proof of Age Texts
- II.40 A Woman Is Tried for Heresy at Norwich: a Court Record
- II.41 Military Historiography
- II.42 A Miracle Associated with King Henry VI: a Painful Football Injury Is Healed
- II.43 The Black Death and Its Effects
- II.44 Forest Documents
- II.45 Manorial and Agricultural Documents
- II.46 Town Life and Trade: Administrative Documents
- II.47 Buildings: Construction and Reparation
- II.48 Royal and Ecclesiastical Accounts
- II.49 In the Courts
- II.50 Safeguarding, Accidents and Death
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
In the early fifteenth century it was still the norm for local witnesses to be called to swear to the age of a young person to prove that they were old enough to inherit property. The sworn statements of these witnesses, given orally in ENglish but recorded in Latin translation provide interesting and often amusing details about the lives of ordinary people.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 347 - 351Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024