The Church Records of St Andrew Hubbard Eastcheap C1450 - C1570 Contributor(s): Burgess, Clive (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0900952342 ISBN-13: 9780900952340 Publisher: Lincoln Record Society OUR PRICE: $80.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1999 |
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BISAC Categories: - Religion | Theology |
Series: London Record Society |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 9.7" (2.05 lbs) 358 pages |
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Publisher Description: St Andrew was a small and comparatively obscure parish situated in the south-east of the medieval city of London, but its churchwardens' accounts survive in a virtually unbroken series starting in 1454 and continuing into the 1620s. Such complete sets of churchwardens' accounts are rare and particularly so for the period before the Reformation. These accounts reveal much about the practices and priorities of ordinary Londoners and demonstrate how they responded to the often conflicting demands of royal government in the sixteenth century. In addition to the accounts, the editor has also provided the texts of nearly a hundred wills of men and women who lived and died in this smallparish during these years. There is a full index provided to both the accounts and the wills. |
Contributor Bio(s): Burgess, Clive: - Senior Lecturer in History, Royal Holloway, University of London. He obtained his undergraduate and doctorate from Corpus Christi College, Oxford. |