Beccles

Medieval Beccles

MEDIAEVAL HISTORY - DOMESDAY TO 1500

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Current interests include:-

• Are there tunnels under the centre of Beccles and if so where?
• What do the Beccles manor court rolls tell us about life in 15th century Beccles
• How to decipher medieval documents
• Street names and other place names in Beccles

This group will try to uncover what Beccles was like during this period.

This we shall do by finding out:

• who lived in Beccles;
• what they did;
• what they owned;
• whether they were affected by national events (e.g., the black death, religious upheavals (e.g., the Lollards), famine and the peasants revolt);

We shall see what we can discover from both published articles and original documents.