| Description | The manor of Borley, in the north-east corner of Essex, is accounted for by a serjeant in 1276. This official's title changes to reeve in 1361, but the accounts are in the same format with the financial receipts and expenses of the produce and running of the estate, the upkeep of the property, payments of manorial servants and to the priory's representative, being complimented by accounts of corn, stock, and agricultural activities on the dorse. By 1400, a farmer is responsible for the estate and his accounts are far briefer recording only his farm and property maintenance, though a reeve does reappear in 1408 accounting in the full fourteenth century format. |