Seventeenth-Century Print Resources Relevant to Some Paper 3 Topics

Note that this is not an exhaustive list, but rather an attempt to stimulate your curiosity about what recent scholarly work might enable you to understand about the indentures.  Similar information is available about nineteenth-century book collecting, both in the Library's print collection and in articles available through JSTOR's Bibliography and Langauge and Literature databases.

How does your indenture relate to medieval forms of land-ownership and transfer?

Bryce Dale Lyon.  From fief to indenture : the transition from feudal to non-feudal contract in Western Europe   Cambridge : Harvard UP,  1957.  

Main Collection 321.3 L99

Does your indenture involve female recipients of bequests or owners/sellers/buyers of land?  (This study covers the following century, in which the English novel first appeared, but it will necessarily discuss how things were changing from the C17 women's perspective.)

April London .  Women and property in the eighteenth-century English novel Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge UP, 1999.  

Main Collection 823.9 L847w 

Does your indenture involve persons who either emigrated to the American colonies or had descendents who did so?

Jean B. Russo and J. Elliott Russo.  Planting an empire : the early Chesapeake in British North America Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP, c2012

           Main Collection 975.202 R969p 2012

David Grayson Allen.  In English ways : the movement of societies and the transferal of English local law and custom to Massachusetts Bay in the

seventeenth century      Chapel Hill : U North Carolina P, c1981.   Main Collection 974 A425i   

Does your indenture contain terms you cannot find in Thoyts or the Oxford English Dictionary?

Peter Beal.  A dictionary of English manuscript terminology, 1450 to 2000 Oxford ; New York : Oxford UP, 2008.  

Special Collections Reference Z106.5.G7 B43 2008   [Note you will have to use this in Special Collections M-F from 10 to 4.]