The following table lists the working population in the Middle Ages. The information is taken from Table 20 of A C Chibnall's book "Sherington: Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village ".
Adam | Brittain | Bozard | Barker | Chandler | Banister | Beamond | Adyngton |
Bouchmaler | Brut | Chandler | Brittain | Clerk | Barker | Bocher | Bocher |
Bozard | Carpenter | Gille | Britte | Key | Brittain | Elyott | Brittain |
Chandler | Carter | Key | Carter | Millward | Britte | Glaunder | Chibnall |
Copshot | Clerk | Shore | Clerk | Shore | Carter | Grenewich | Course (2) |
Dayrel | Courage | Smart | Colyns | Colyns | Hed | Elyott (2) | |
Gille | Course | Clyfford | Course | Henley | Field | ||
Key (Gegh) | Coyte | Course | Coyte | Key | Fisher (2) | ||
Shore | Elliot | Coyte | Dedipas | Millward (Millard) | Grendon (2) | ||
Fisher | Elliot | Elliot | Overend | Overend | |||
Frere | Fisher | Everard | Smith | Paynter | |||
Gerveys | Frere | Fisher | Williamson | Pell | |||
Gunnild | Herman | Frere | Sampson | ||||
Herman | Heries | Grenewiche | Sheriff | ||||
Heyne | Heyne | Heries | Shortred | ||||
Huet | Huet | Herman | Smith (2) | ||||
Jones | Kinball | Hooton | Taylor | ||||
Jory | Mason | Huet | |||||
Kenet | Mathew | Mathew | |||||
Kynbell | Mulsoe | Mulsoe | |||||
Long | Sampson | Sampson | |||||
Mason | Shepeherde | Shepeherde | |||||
Mathew | Smith | Smith | |||||
Palmer | Stachedone | Taylor | |||||
Rafenyld | Stouton | Underwood | |||||
Richer | Taylor | ||||||
Savage | |||||||
Shepeherde | |||||||
Smith | |||||||
Stachedone | |||||||
Stouton | |||||||
Taylor | |||||||
Troup |
Estimated number of working families
Cottagers and labourers | 9 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
Smallholders, tenant farmers and tradesmen | 34 | 20 | 6 | 26 | 15 | 9 | 25 | 13 | 8 | 22 |
TOTAL | 43 | 25 | 7 | 32 | 18 | 11 | 30 | 18 | 15 | 34 |
Note: these figures are as given by Chibnall in Table 21 of his book - they do not appear to quite add up correctly
Data sources cited by Chibnall:
- 1345 - Lay subsidy return of 1332 and Throckmorton charters
- 1400 - Throckmorton charters, Close Rolls, various inquisitions and a list of tenants of the Grey de Wilton manor
- 1460 - Lnd deeds, Close Rolls, various inquisitions and a list of tenants of FitzJohn's manor
- 1520 - Muster Survey 1522, subsidy of 1524-5 and Court Rolls of the Mercers' Company
Principal holders of land: 1312, 1400, 1460, 1580, 1650, 1700,1750, 1797, 1862/1962