This is the first systematic quantitative account of British economic growth from the thirteenth century to the Industrial Revolution.

Lee studies the population, wealth, trade and markets of Cambridge and its region, and the changes that took place over a century of economic and social transition are detailed.

Challenging a hundred-year tradition that English peasants were serfs at the disposal of their lord, J.A. Raftis argues that tenants were in considerable control of the manorial regime and were able to take advantage of what most scholars have considered to be exploitive and negative aspects of the medieval agricultural economy.

Hepmangrove began as a suburb of Ramsey, but later was absorbed by Bury.