Download or read book Wills and Inventories from the Registers of the Commissary of Bury St Edmunds and the Archdeacon of Sudbury written by Samuel Tymms and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury 1439 1474 written by Peter Northeast and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accounts of the Feoffees of the Town Lands of Bury St Edmunds 1569 1622 written by Margaret Statham and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the absence of borough status and after the winding up of the guilds, the townsmen of Bury St Emunds experiment with town government. In 1569, thirty years after its abbey had been dissolved, the large town of Bury St Edmunds remained unincorporated. These accounts show how the feoffees (still essentially the medieval Candlemas guild) experimented with town government. The pre-Reformation landed endowments were increased throughout the period. This enabled the feoffees to address many aspects of town life. In addition to payments for housing and clothing the poor, and the provision of medical care, they also contributed to the cost of providing clergy (whose theology was akin to their own) for the two town churches. To encourage trade, they built the town's first covered Market Cross, while the acquisition of theShire House enabled the assizes and quarter sessions to move into the town. After the turn of the century, the Charitable Uses Act of 1601 was used to recover land which had long ago been alienated. At the same time some of the up and coming men successfully petitioned for a charter of incorporation for Bury St Edmunds, so that in 1606 the town acquired the borough status which had eluded it for centuries. Unless new sources are discovered, these accounts, though inevitably slanted to the feoffees' activities, are the most revealing source for the work of the new corporation in its early years.
Download or read book Wills and Testaments in Medieval England from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century written by Robert A. Wood and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the will-making process in late medieval England for all levels of society. Wills are some of the most studied records of the late Middle Ages and capture the evidence of what people owned and the patterns of family relationships. These documents, compiled from several archives and city records, cast a light on many aspects of medieval life, including gender distinctions and the heavy influence of the church. Included are wills from widows, tradespeople and artisans, clergy, and high-ranking wealthy people, and through these sources he shows how wills, inventories, and testaments prepared people and their souls for the afterlife.
Download or read book The Wills of Our Ancestors written by Stuart A. Raymond and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Almost every book on English research highlights the need to examine the wills of our ancestors. . . . [this book] gives us an easy to read detailed guide.” —FGS Forum What are wills, and how can they be used for family and local history research? How can you interpret them and get as much insight from them as possible? Wills are key documents for exploring the lives of our ancestors, their circumstances, and the world they knew. This practical handbook is the essential guide to understanding wills. Wills expert Stuart Raymond traces the history and purpose of probate records and guides readers through the many pitfalls and possibilities these fascinating documents present. He describes the process of probate, gives a detailed account of the content of the various different types of record, and advises readers on how they can be used to throw light into the past, offering factual evidence that no genealogist or local historian can afford to ignore. In a series of concise, fact-filled chapters, Raymond explains how wills came into being, who made them and how they were made, how the probate system operates, how wills and inventories can be found, and how much can be learned from them. In addition to covering probate records in England and Wales, he includes the Channel Islands, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Scotland. This introduction is aimed primarily at family historians who are interested in the wills of particular individuals who are seeking proof of descent and local historians who are interested in the wealth of local historical information that can be gathered from them.
Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Historical Society written by Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transactions and publications of the Royal Historical Society" in each vol., ser. 4, v. 18-26.
Download or read book Medieval Clothing and Textiles written by Robin Netherton and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. Topics in this volume range widely throughout the European middle ages. Three contributions concern terminology for dress. Two deal with multicultural medieval Apulia: an examination of clothing terms in surviving marriage contracts from the tenth to the fourteenth century, and a close focus on an illuminated document made for a prestigious wedding. Turning to Scandinavia, there is an analysis of clothing materials from Norway and Sweden according to gender and social distribution. Further papers consider the economic uses of cloth and clothing: wool production and the dress of the Cistercian community at Beaulieu Abbey based on its 1269-1270 account book, and the use of clothing as pledge or payment in medieval Ireland. In addition, there is a consideration of the history of dagged clothing and its negative significance to moralists, and of the painted hangings that were common in homes of all classes in the sixteenth century. ROBIN NETHERTON is a professional editor and a researcher/lecturer on the interpretation of medieval European dress; GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is Emerita Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester. Contributors: Antonietta Amati, Eva I. Andersson, John Block Friedman, Susan James, John Oldland, Lucia Sinisi, Mark Zumbuhl
Download or read book Death Religion and the Family in England 1480 1750 written by Ralph Anthony Houlbrooke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the effects of religious change on the English way of death between 1480 and 1750. It discusses relatively neglected aspects of the subject such as the death-bed, will-making and the last rites.
Download or read book King Death written by Colin Platt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated survey examines what it was actually like to live with plague and the threat of plague in late-medieval and early modern England.; Colin Platt's books include "The English Medieval Town", "Medieval England: A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600" and "The Architecture of Medieval Britain: A Social History" which won the Wolfson Prize for 1990. This book is intended for undergraduate/6th form courses on medieval England, option courses on demography, medicine, family and social focus. The "black death" and population decline is central to A-level syllabuses on this period.
Download or read book Genealogical Material and Local Histories in the St Louis Public Library written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sweet Maxwell s Complete Law Book Catalogue A bibliography of English law to 1650 including books dealing with that period printed from 1480 to 1925 written by Sweet & Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliography of English Law written by Sweet & Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Notes and Queries Number 46 September 14 1850 written by Various and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Incorporated Law Society written by Law Society (Great Britain). Library and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cult of St Edmund in Medieval East Anglia written by Rebecca Pinner and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigaton of the growth and influence of the cult of St Edmund, and how it manifested itself in medieval material culture.
