Dr Jonathan Mackman

Research Fellow, House of Commons, 1461-1504

jmackman@histparl.ac.uk

Current Research/Role

I am a Research Fellow in the House of Commons 1461-1504 section, having joined the History in 2022. Since completing my doctorate at the University of York in 1999, I have spent many years working on a range of other historical research and archival cataloguing projects, on a variety of subjects. I am currently researching the lives and careers of the members of Parliament for the counties of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire and the various parliamentary boroughs within them. These have ranged from influential knights and courtiers through to minor gentry, lawyers and merchants.

Research Interests

Outside of the History, I have worked on a wide variety of high-profile projects across the later medieval and early-modern periods. These have covered subjects as varied as medieval taxation, the common law, theNorthern church and parliamentary petitioning, and perhaps most importantly a ground-breaking project examining the nature and extent of medieval immigration, which has since inspired a huge range of further research activities.

My wider research interests and publications, often connected to my previous projects, have tended to focus on various aspects of local and regional history, particularly the East Midlands and the North of England, as well as the editing of original manuscripts. Amongst many other publications and papers, I have written articles on the local and national careers of two northern clergymen, a violent dispute in fifteenth-century Lincolnshire, and an attempted fraud committed by a Yorkshire tax collector. I am also producing two new volumes for the List and Index Society detailing the names and service of the men appointed as Justices of the Peace during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. I am a trustee of the British Association for Local History and a committee member of the Hertfordshire Association for Local History.

Publications

Books

Justices of the Peace of the Reign of Henry VII, 1485-1509 (Kew: List and Index Society, 2024)

The Lordship of Middleham in 1465-6 and 1473-4 (Donington: Yorkist History Society and Shaun Tyas, 2023). [with L. Visser-Fuchs & A. F. Sutton]. 

Immigrant England 1300-1550 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019) [with W.M. Ormrod and B. Lambert]. 

Chapters in Books

‘Ad insolenciam ipsius rebellis salubrius reprimendam: William Thorntoft, the Abbey of Rufford and Significations of Excommunication in the Northern Province’, in P. Dryburgh & S. Rees Jones (eds.), The Church and Northern English Society in the Fourteenth Century (York: York Medieval Press, 2024), pp. 172-90.

‘Vos maisons sount pris al eops le counte’: Walter Bedwyn, Treasurer of York, and the Return of Piers Gaveston’ (with Dr. P. Dryburgh), in J. Bothwell & J.S. Hamilton (eds.), Fourteenth Century England XII (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2022), pp. 47-64.

‘The ‘Unfortunate’ Fraudster: Thomas de Boulton and the East Riding Lay Subsidy of 1332’, in G. Dodd & C. Taylor (eds.), Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of W. Mark Ormrod (York: York Medieval Press, 2020), pp. 1-20

‘Aliens and the Law in Late Medieval Lincolnshire, c.1330-c.1430’, in W.M. Ormrod, N. McDonald & C. Taylor (eds), Resident Aliens in Later Medieval England (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), pp. 105-23 [with A. Kissane]

‘Resident Aliens in Later Medieval England: Sources, Contexts and Debates’, in W.M. Ormrod, N. McDonald & C. Taylor (eds), Resident Aliens in Later Medieval England (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), pp. 1-31 [with W.M. Ormrod]

‘“To theire grete hurte and finall destruction”: Lord Welles’s attacks on Spalding and Pinchbeck, 1449-50’, in P. Brand & S. Cunningham (eds), Foundations of Medieval Scholarship: Records edited in honour of David Crook (York: The Borthwick Institute, 2008), pp. 183-95‘‘Hidden Gems’ in the Records of the Common Pleas: New Evidence on the Legacy of Lucy Visconti’, in L. Clark (ed.), The Fifteenth Century VIII: Rule, Redemption and Representations in Late Medieval England and France (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2008), pp. 59-72.

Journal Articles

‘Grave Stuff: Litigation with a London Tomb Maker in 1421’, Historical Research, 84 (2011), pp. 572-85. [with N. Saul and C. Whittick]

‘The E 179 (Lay Taxation) Project: The Records and the Database’, Genealogists’ Magazine 28:1 (2004), pp. 3-11 [with E. H. Watt] ‘Tax Trails Further Explored’, Ancestors 16 (2003), pp. 19-25 [with E. H. Watt]

Specialisms: Medieval History, Local History, Regional History, Administrative History, Political History, Legal History, Immigration, Taxation.