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History of Parliament Staff
Dr Simon Payling
Senior Research Fellow, 1422-1504
Research
My work at the History of Parliament currently focuses on the representatives of Herefordshire and Shropshire. Outside the History my research interests include the legal profession, the law governing the descent of real property and marriage contracts.
Publications
My principal publications include: Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire (Oxford, 1991); ‘Social mobility, demographic change, and landed society in late-medieval England’, Economic History Review, xlv (1992), pp. 51-73; ‘The economics of marriage in late-medieval England: the marriage of heiresses’, ibid., liv (2001), pp. 413-29; ‘The Ampthill Dispute: a study in aristocratic lawlesness and the breakdown of Lancastrian Government’, English Historical Review, civ (1989), pp. 881-907; ‘Murder, Motive and Punishment in Fifteenth-Century England: Two Gentry Case-Studies’, ibid., cxiii (1998), pp. 1-17.