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Mark Spurrell

Stow Church Restored

$36.95

Stow Church in Lincolnshire is one of the most interesting Anglo-Saxon Churches in England. These documents record its restoration in the mid-nineteenth century.

S.A. Peyton

Minutes of Proceedings in Quarter Sessions for the parts of Kesteven in the County of Lincoln 1674-1695 Volume II

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Minutes of Proceedings in Quarter Sessions for the parts of Kesteven in the County of Lincoln 1674-1695 Volume II

Revd H.E. Salter

The Oseney Cartulary. Vol I

$49.95

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J.W.F. Hill

Letters and papers of the Banks Family of [The] Revesby Abbey, 1704-1760

$36.95

Alterations to Revesby - buildings, furnishings, estate management - and family business in Lincoln, London and elsewhere.

Alterations to Revesby - buildings, furnishings, estate management - and family business in Lincoln, London and elsewhere.

Letters and papers of the Banks Family of [The] Revesby Abbey, 1704-1760

M. Burrows

Collectanea, 3rd Series

$49.95

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C.W. Foster

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [6]

$36.95

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Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [6]

R.W. Ambler

Lincolnshire Parish Correspondence of John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln 1827-53

$39.95

The 532 letters that are published in this volume come from the extensive correspondence that was received from people in Lincolnshire parishes by John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln between 1827 and 1853. They are important because theyexpress the opinions and reflect the attitudes of lay people as well as clergymen: Kaye's correspondents ranged from members of the landed gentry to people who would usually have little direct contact with the bishop. They included a 'troublesome', 'deceptious' and 'pugnacious' village carrier disputing the fees charged for burial in his local churchyard, as well as the farmer who complained of the 'hill usige' that he had 'ricivid from the viker' of hisparish.

The correspondence reflects Kaye's work as a Church reformer, but it is also important for the way that it demonstrates the changing significance of the Church in the lives of local communities. The extent to which the Church and its affairs were the means through which the social relations of parishes were articulated and sustained was a measure of the continuing importance of the establishment.

ROD AMBLER is Senior Lecturerin History at the University of Hull.

Lincolnshire Parish Correspondence of John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln 1827-53

H.E. Salter

A Cartulary of the Hospital of St John Baptist vol.I

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A Cartulary of the Hospital of St John Baptist vol.I

C W Foster

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [10]

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Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [10]

C.W. Foster

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [I]

$36.95

A transcript of the original cartulary of Lincoln cathedral compiled in the 13th and 14th centuries, with additional charters, a comprehensive introduction and two volumes of facsimiles.

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [I]

John Monson

Lincolnshire Church Notes made by William John Monson, FSA, 1828-1840

$36.95

Monson's Church Notes, covering 227 parishes, were compiled before the 19th century spirit of renovation in Lincolnshire. Hence their value, for much of what he records disappeared during the passion for renovation.

Lincolnshire Church Notes made by William John Monson, FSA, 1828-1840

Neil Stacy

Cartae Baronum

$85.00

A key point of reference for all political and social historians of twelfth-century England.

Early in 1166, Henry II sent out orders via his sheriffs to all his tenants-in-chief, instructing them to send him returns (subsequently referred to as the cartae baronum) that listed the number of knights enfeoffed upon their estates in 1135 (when Henry I died); the number of knights they had enfeoffed since 1135; how many knights were charged on their demesne; and the names of their knightly tenants. The returns submitted by his tenants-in-chief are therefore indispensable records for the nature of tenurial lordship as it operated under King Henry II. The cartae were instrumental in their own day in confirming ligeance from rear tenants, and providing up-to-date lists of honorial knights from whom the king might collect such feudal incidents (wardships and reliefs as well as scutages and aids) as fell during a period of royal custody. They also laid the groundwork for a possible revision ofknightly quotas owing to the crown. Due to the sheer level of detail within the returns, they are also a key source for those scholars who are interested in tracing the histories of individual honors and identifying comital, baronial and knightly landholders in twelfth-century England.
This important volume brings together all the extant cartae baronum for the first time. In addition to these, there are notices, mostly from the early thirteenthcentury, of those cartae which are now lost. Each individual cartae here is accompanied by a detailed note that identifies the individual tenant in chief, briefly discusses the history of his barony or holding, anddefines the nature of his obligations to the crown under Henry II. The editor has also corrected a number of long-established textual errors, and identified as many subtenants as possible and located their toponyms.

NEIL STACY gained his DPhil from Oxford. His publications include books on the estates of the abbeys of Glastonbury and Shaftesbury.

D.W. Rannie

Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne vol. V

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Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne vol. V

Frank Henthorn

Letters and Papers Concerning the Establishment of the Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway, 1860-1862

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Letters and Papers Concerning the Establishment of the Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway, 1860-1862

Nicholas Bennett

The Registers of Henry Burghersh 1320-1342

$39.95

Burghersh revealed as conscientious diocesan; new light on his involvement in invasion of Isabella and Mortimer in 1326.

Henry Burghersh, bishop of Lincoln from 1320 until 1340, has not been treated kindly by historians. The largely hostile view expressed by early fourteenth-century chroniclers gives us a portrait of a man promoted to the office ofbishop solely as a result of family influence and royal intervention, but who subsequently betrayed the monarch who had favoured him, lending support to the rebellion of Thomas of Lancaster in 1322 and plotting with Queen Isabellato overthrow her husband. This edition of Burghersh's episcopal register reveals a different character. The bishop emerges as a conscientious diocesan and an administrator of considerable ability, while the evidence of his itinerary throws new light on the question of his involvement in the invasion of Isabella and Mortimer in 1326. The volume includes the first part of Burghersh's institution register, comprising admissions of clergy to parochial benefices, appointments of heads of religious houses, and ordinations of vicarages and chantries in the archdeaconries Northampton, Oxford, Bedford, Buckingham and Huntingdon.

Dr NICHOLAS BENNETT is Vice-Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral.

The Registers of Henry Burghersh 1320-1342

C.W. Boase

Register of the University of Oxford, vol I

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Register of the University of Oxford, vol I

Revd Provost The Queen's College

The Flemings in Oxford vol. II

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Lesley Boatwright

The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Tenth Year of the Reign of King Henry III Michaelmas 1226

$85.00

The pipe roll for Michaelmas 1226 is particularly informative as it preserves the accounts for no fewer than twenty-nine English shrievalties, allowing us to analyse the collection of royal revenues in fascinating detail.

This volume is the first edition of the Latin pipe roll for 10 Henry III (Michaelmas 1226). It will be invaluable for historians of the reign of King Henry III and for historians interested in medieval royal finance and administration. It is a particularly detailed roll, which preserves the accounts for no fewer than twenty-nine English shrievalties, with only Rutland and Westmorland missing. In addition to these, this pipe roll includes a number of other accounts, including those of Thomas of Cirencester for the earl of Devon's lands and the king's manors in Devon, which will be useful to local historians. Although no new scutages were levied in this accounting year, this pipe roll shows that arrears were still coming in from those of Montgomery (1223) and Bedford (1224), with some particularly detailed entries relating to the honours of Boulogne and Wallingford. The contents of this roll also allow historians interested in taxation and royal revenues to trace the collection of the fifteenth on moveable property, which had been proposed in return for the re-issue of Magna Carta in 1225. There is, similarly, interesting information relating to the business of Hugh de Neville's forest eyre of 1224-5 for Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire, Worcestershire and Dorset, offering insights into the implementation of the Forest Charter. The contents of this pipe roll also assist in studying the royal exchequer's continued attempts to recover large, outstanding debts from barons, such as Warin de Munchensy, via a policy of consolidation and attermination.
Other business of potential interest to a range of scholars is covered in the pipe roll for 10 Henry III. The staffing and maintenance of royal castles are mentioned regularly, and the roll's contents provide important information about the keepers of royal castles in different counties, payments for crossbowmen in particular locations, details relating to knight service and payments for repairs to castles, such as Bedford which figured in Fawkes de Bréauté's revolt of 1224, and for building works at the Tower of London. Included among other business outlined in this pipe roll are details of the money and equipment transported to Portsmouth and Portchester for despatch to Gascony for the use of Richard, Henry III's brother, who had recently been created count of Poitou, and for the defence of Gascony against Louis VIII.

The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Tenth Year of the Reign of King Henry III Michaelmas 1226

Rosalind M.T. Hill

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [II]

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Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [II]

Kenneth D. Brown

John Burns

$95.00

A fresh look at Labour's `lost leader', exploiting the the opening of government records and the private papers of his most important contemporaries.

Oxford Historical

Oxford Studies Presented to Daniel Callus. 1959-60

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Oxford Studies Presented to Daniel Callus. 1959-60

Colin J. Brett

Thomas Kytson's 'Boke of Remembraunce' (1529-1540)

$85.00

A wealthy merchant's memoranda of sales reveals a wealth of fascinating detail.

Over a period of eleven years from 1529 to his death, the wealthy London alderman, mercer and Merchant Adventurer Sir Thomas Kytson (1485-1540) recorded many of his commercial dealings in his 'Boke of Remembraunce'. This fascinating document, edited here for the first time, provides details not only of his purchases of cloth and the shipments of these to the annual marts held in the Low Countries, but also the sales of fabrics, spices, and other goods imported on the returning ships to Kytson's fellow merchants of London, members of the gentry, and others. Alongside these, there are memoranda of the delivery of materials to Kytson's wife and friends, and of some of his other personal concerns. The volume thus offers a colourful and detailed picture of the private and commercial life of a leading Londoner in the years around the English Reformation.
Kytson's own 'Boke' is here collated with a separate record of exports to the Flemish marts in Antwerp and Bergen-op-Zoom kept by the mercer's clerks, and supplemented by an account of transactions at the 'Synxten Mart' at Antwerp in 1536, written by Sir Thomas's nephew, Thomas Washington. The material is complemented with extensive annotation and a comprehensive glossary, an introduction and substantial indices. COLIN J. BRETT'S published writings include volumes for the Somerset Record Society and paperson regional historical topics.

Thomas Kytson's 'Boke of Remembraunce' (1529-1540)

Graham Neville

The Diaries of Edward Lee Hicks Bishop of Lincoln 1910-1919

$36.95

A very useful source for the history of the early 20th-century church. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY Daily preoccupations of the bishop cast light on church and society in and around Lincoln before and during the first worldwar.

Bishop Edward Lee Hicks' diary offers an honest picture of the daily life of a bishop in the period immediately before and during the first world war, a portrait of church and society in a largely rural diocese in the last phase before the radical transformation which the `Great War' hastened. The diary presents a largely church-centred picture; but it is also valuable as a personal view of such matters as Lincolnshire social life including the impact of war on the county, conditions of travel at the beginning of the era of the motor car, characteristics of the clergy, and frequent comment on items of archaeological and antiquarian interest.Canon GRAHAM NEVILLEwas Canon andPrebendary of Lincoln Cathedral from 1982-1987.

The Diaries of Edward Lee Hicks Bishop of Lincoln 1910-1919

Diana Honeybone, Michael Honeybone

The Correspondence of William Stukeley and Maurice Johnson, 1714-1754

$60.00

Edition of the correspondence of the notable antiquarians William Stukeley and Maurice Johnson, presenting vivid details of life at the time.

Both sides of a correspondence, stretching over forty years, between two remarkable Lincolnshire friends, the antiquaries William Stukeley (1687-1765) and Maurice Johnson (1688-1755), are brought together in this volume. Beginningwhen the writers were in their twenties, the letters cover Johnson's work as a lawyer and the development of his cherished Spalding Gentlemen's Society, and Stukeley's career as a physician, his ordination in 1729, and eventual return to London in 1747. The two friends wrote on a wide range of topics, including current affairs, political scandals, financial disasters like the South Sea Bubble and the threat of Jacobite invasions. The letters reflect cultural life: the founding of the British Museum, operatic performances, the activities of the Royal Society and Society of Antiquaries. They portray life in South Lincolnshire: local elections, concerts, race meetings and plays. Local gossip reveals a parade of characters, marrying for love or money, building houses, and encountering alarming accidents. Naturally, the letters also illustrate the lives of the two friends, their financial concerns, their marriages, children and pets, their friendships, difficulties with neighbours and all the minutiæ of small-town Lincolnshire life. Above all, the two men shared their passion for the study of antiquity and their enthusiasm for spreadingknowledge as widely as possible, particularly through the learned societies founded during this period.
The letters are presented with explanatory notes and a full introduction.

Diana Honeybone and Michael Honeybone taught history for the Open University and Nottingham University Department of Adult Education. They have spent many years studying and teaching the local history of the East Midlands, with special emphasis on intellectual activity in the eighteenth century.

The Correspondence of William Stukeley and Maurice Johnson, 1714-1754

Greg T. Smith

Summary Justice in the City

$85.00

Records from London's Guildhall reveal the workings of the law in the eighteenth century.

For centuries, the City of London's Lord Mayor and Aldermen have headed various courts and tribunals as part of their official obligations. In the City's Guildhall, Londoners from all walks of life could appear before an aldermansitting as a magistrate in the "justice room" and initiate a criminal complaint when they were the victims of crime. But what actually happened in those initial hearings between the accuser, the accused and the magistrate has remained largely obscured to history.
These records shed light on the earliest phases of a criminal prosecution and reveal the routines of criminal justice administration in the eighteenth-century metropolis. From the fragmentaryminutes of the proceedings conducted before London's aldermen, who sat for a part of every working day as Justices of the Peace, we learn of the petty squabbles of the City's poor with parish officials, the ready resort to physical violence in public and private spheres, the steady campaign against prostitution, and the growing professionalism of the parish constables who policed London before the arrival of the Metropolitan Police.The records will be ofinterest to historians of London, social historians of crime, genealogists and scholars interested in summary or pre-trial procedures in early modern England; they are presented here with introduction and explanatory notes.

Greg T. Smith is Associate Professor of History at the University of Manitoba.

Peter Clark, Jennifer Clark

Boston Assembly Minutes, 1545-1575

$36.95

The first thirty years of the first minute book of the Boston Assembly.

The first thirty years of the first minute book of the Boston Assembly,of interest for its illumination of the economic history of an important port and centre for puritanical activity.

C.E. Doble

Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne vol. VIII

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Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne vol. VIII

Harold W. Brace

The First Minute Book of the Gainsborough Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1669-1719

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The First Minute Book of the Gainsborough Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1669-1719

C.E Doble

Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne Vol. I

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Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne Vol. I

D. V. Glass

London Inhabitants within the Walls 1695

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London Inhabitants within the Walls 1695

Rosalind M.T. Hill

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [III]

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Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [III]

Caroline M. Barron

The London Jubilee Book, 1376-1387

$85.00

Edition and translation of a copy of a vastly significant document for our understanding of fourteenth-century England, long believed lost.

In the summer of 1376 a spirit of reform was abroad in the city of London. A number of measures were taken to make those who were elected to govern the city more responsible to its citizens as a whole. A committee was set up to examine the ordinances at the Guildhall and present to the Commonalty those that were "profitables" and those that were not. Two years later, the committee produced a volume known officially as the Liber de Ordinancionibus, but popularly as "The Jubilee book", because it had been initiated in the jubilee year of Edward III's reign. But the reforming measures introduced in the book caused so many controversies and disputes that eventually, in a bid to restore order in the city, in March 1387 the "Jubilee Book" was taken outside the Guildhall and publicly burnt.
Historians have long debated the possible contents of this contentious but hugely significant volume, widely believed to be lost. However, recently a fifteenth-century copy of the "Jubilee Book", possibly of an earlier draft put together in the course of the two years, but superseded by the final version, was discovered in a manuscript held at Trinity College Cambridge (Ms O.3.11).

Martyn Beardsley, Nicholas Bennett

`Gratefull to Providence': The Diary and Accounts of Matthew Flinders, Surgeon, Apothecary, and Man-Midwife, 1775-1802

$39.95

Diaries and account books provide rich evidence for daily life at the time - and the early years of Matthew Flinders, credited with naming Australia.

This volume presents [and completes] the edition of the diary and account books of Matthew Flinders, surgeon and apothecary of Donington in south Lincolnshire. His son, also Matthew, who later won renown as the first circumnavigator of Australia, appears here as a schoolboy, choosing not to follow his father as an apothecary but pursuing instead a career at sea.

The diary records the social life of Donington - magical deceptions at the Bull and the visit of a theatre company - and the joys and sorrows of family life. Flinders's success in business led to investments in land and government securities, yet his fear of poverty was never far away and his wish to sell up and retire was never realised. The war with France is a recurring theme, both in the ever-increasing taxes imposed to pay for it, and in the local patriotism evoked by Nelson's victory at the Nile, and that of the 'Glorious First of June' in which the young Matthew took part. Other national events shown to impinge on country life and mentioned in the diary include the king's recovery from madness in 1789 [celebrated by the illumination of the whole town]. Overall, it affords a rare glimpse into everyday life at the time.

`Gratefull to Providence': The Diary and Accounts of Matthew Flinders, Surgeon, Apothecary, and Man-Midwife, 1775-1802

Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson

A Woman in Wartime London

$85.00

Kathleen Tipper's diary, kept for Mass-Observation from July 1941 till peace in 1945 and beyond, offers a unique personal insight into one young woman's war.

Kathleen Tipper was just twenty years old in September 1939. Her parents had met while making munitions in the Woolwich Arsenal during the Great War and Kathleen lived with them and her younger brother and sister at the family'scouncil house in Appleton Road. Eltham. Grammar-school educated, she worked as a clerk for a shipping company near the Strand. Like so many of the young women around her she was poised to take advantage of the new opportunities for work and leisure that London in the thirties offered as never before.

But Kathleen's life - indeed, the lives of all Londoners - would change for ever in the six years after declaration of war on 3 September. This was a moment of quite extraordinary drama. And Kathleen's diary, kept for Mass-Observation from July 1941 till peace in 1945 and beyond, offers a unique personal insight into one young woman's war. We keep her company through the daily comings and goings of family, friends, work and relaxation - all played out against a backdrop of cataclysmic events brought home through cinema, radio and the daily press. We travel on buses and trains and listen tothe conversations going on about her. We hear the opinions of 'blonde glamour girls', of disgruntled civil servants, of the men and women working the barrage balloons that sway like tipsy bluebottles in the London sky. We witness the effect on her of newsreels and Information Ministry films. We hear her wishing she'd been born a boy so that she could share more fully in the risks and excitements of warfare at the front. We see her disillusionment with people in 'positions of authority', especially those there by virtue of class inheritance, and she helps us understand better some of the forces that shaped Labour's victory in 1945.

It is, perhaps, the ordinariness of this extraordinary time in London's history that comes through most strongly from this fascinating document. Keeping hold of ordinary things was the best way to make sense of a world gone mad. Kathleen Tipper lays bare thesefibres of endurance in the greatest crisis to face London and the Londoner in modern times.

H. Anstey

Epistolae Academicae Oxon Part 2

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Rosalind M.T. Hill

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [VIII]

$36.95

This large and important register of the diocese of Lincoln includes institutions and promotions of heads of religious houses for the archdeaconries of Stow, Bedford, Leicester, Huntingdon, Buckingham and Oxford. Calendared in English with full transcripts and English summaries of unusual entries.

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [VIII]

Patricia Malcolmson

A Free-Spirited Woman

$85.00

Intimate insights into the life of a woman in 1930s London, both private and public.

Gladys Langford (born in 1890) was a free spirit, an aspiring writer (though not published in her lifetime), an inveterate attender of plays, concerts, and films, and an astute and sometimes acerbic observer of everyday life in 1930s London. Married in 1913 (the marriage was later annulled), and chained as she saw it to schoolteaching for most of her adult life, Gladys's days were sometimes unhappy but also full of incident, and featured a relationship with a longstanding but married lover, who was often on her mind.
Gladys's writing is crisp, colourful, and often biting. Her diary, from 1936 to 1940, while frequently introspective and full of self-doubts, is also a vivid portrait of social life. She writes of her quirky friends, her family and straightened family background, her schoolboys in Hoxton, and her numerous Jewish acquaintances. She also has much to say about London's public world - the behaviour of theatre audiences, street entertainers, anti-Semitic outbursts, the roller-coaster moods of people living through 1939, and fears of evacuation with the outbreak of war.

Patricia and Robert Malcolmson are social historians with a special interest in Mass Observation, women in World War Two, and English diaries written between the 1930s and the 1950s.

Elisabeth G. Kimball

Records of some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire, 1381-1396

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Records of some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire, 1381-1396

Henry Horwitz

London and Middlesex Exchequer Equity Pleadings, 1685-6 and 1784-5: A Calendar

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London and Middlesex Exchequer Equity Pleadings, 1685-6 and 1784-5: A Calendar

W.N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley

Woodforde at Oxford

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C.W. Foster

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [facs 5-6]

$36.95

A transcript of the original cartulary of Lincoln cathedral, compiled during the 13th and 14th centuries, with additional charters, a comprehensive introdution and two volumes of facsimiles.

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [facs 5-6]

Ida Darlington

London Consistory Court Wills 1492 - 1547

$85.00

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London Consistory Court Wills 1492 - 1547

Donna T. Andrew

London Debating Societies 1776 - 1799

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C W Foster

The Lincolnshire Domesday and the Lindsey Survey

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The Lincolnshire Domesday and the Lindsey Survey

C.W. Foster

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [2]

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Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [2]

Emma Mason

Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214

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Edward Whymper

The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer

$85.00

In 1865, when just twenty-five years of age, Edward Whymper achieved the fame of which he had dreamt as a teenager by making the first ascent of the Matterhorn, the last great unclimbed summit in the Alps. With renown came notoriety and lasting sorrow, though, due to the catastrophic accident on the descent, which cost the lives of four of his party.

Whymper's life was marked by the conquest of the Matterhorn, but his mountaineering achievements have overshadowed his distinction as a wood engraver and book illustrator. Before he had ever thought about the Alps, while a teenager fulfilling his apprenticeship in the family engraving studio, Whymper kept a diary for six years, detailing his daily life in Lambeth. Showing frequent glimpses of the dry and sardonic humour so characteristic of the older Whymper, the diary is written with a developing style which looks forward to his classic works on mountaineering, Scrambles amongst the Alps and Travels amongst the the great Andes of the Equator.

Providing a rare picture of the workings of a wood engraving studio during the heyday of this reproductive medium, the diary also reveals the world of his father, Josiah, and those London-based artists seeking to make a living from their water-colour painting. An avid reader of The Times, the young Whymper's diary follows the events of the day - the Crimean War, trhe Indian Mutiny, the affairs of Parliament, notorious trials, business scandals - and also the many fires and daily catastrophes so prevalent in Victorian London.

This edition reproduces the complete text of Whymper's first diary for the first time.

Ian Smith is a librarian, who is writing a biography of Edward Whymper. He is a member of the Alpine Club and has climbed many of Whymper's first ascents. He is from south London and lives in Kennington.

Rosalind M.T. Hill

The Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton, 1280-1299

$39.95

Bishop Sutton's ordination-lists, in common with the rest of his register, were kept on rolls for the first ten years of his episcopate. None of these rolls has survived, and the records therefore begin with the Whitsun ordinations of the eleventh year of Sutton's episcopate (which ran from May 19, 1290, to May 18, 1291) and continue until his death on November 13, 1299.

The Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton, 1280-1299

A. Mary Kirkus

Records of Commissioners of Sewers in Parts of Holland, 1547-1603 III

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Records of Commissioners of Sewers in Parts of Holland, 1547-1603 III

Betty R. Masters

Chamber Accounts of the Sixteenth Century

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Chamber Accounts of the Sixteenth Century

Heather Creaton

Unpublished London Diaries

$85.00

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A.K. McHardy

Royal Writs addressed to John Buckingham, Bishop of Lincoln, 1363-1398

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Royal Writs addressed to John Buckingham, Bishop of Lincoln, 1363-1398

A. Mary Kirkus

Records of Commissioners of Sewers in Parts of Holland, 1547-1603 II

$36.95

The introduction describes the physical conditions which led to the setting up of the courts of sewers, and considers the history and constitution of those courts.

Records of Commissioners of Sewers in Parts of Holland, 1547-1603 II

Jacob M. Price

Joshua Johnson's Letterbook, 1771-1774

$85.00

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Nicholas Bennett

Wonderful to Behold

$39.95

The growth and development of the Lincoln Record Society in its first hundred years highlights the contribution of such organisations to historical life.

In 2010 the Lincoln Record Society celebrates its centenary with the publication of the hundredth volume in its distinguished series. Local record societies, financed almost entirely from the subscriptions of their members, have made an important contribution to the study of English history by making accessible in printed form some of the key archival materials relating to their areas. The story of the Lincoln society illustrates the struggles and triumphsof such an enterprise. Founded by Charles Wilmer Foster, a local clergyman of remarkable enthusiasm, the LRS set new standards of meticulous scholarship in the editing of its volumes. Its growing reputation is traced here througha rich archive of correspondence with eminent historians, among them Alexander Hamilton Thompson and Frank Stenton. The difficulties with which Kathleen Major, Canon Foster's successor, contended to keep the Society alive duringthe dark days of the Second World War are vividly described.

The range of volumes published has continued to expand, from the staple cartularies and episcopal registers to more unusual sources, Quaker minutes, records ofCourts of Sewers and seventeenth-century port books. While many of the best-known publications have dealt with the medieval period, notably the magnificent Registrum Antiquissimum of Lincoln Cathedral, there have also beeneditions of eighteenth-century correspondence, twentieth-century diaries, and pioneering railway photographs of the late Victorian era. This story shows the Lincoln Record Society to be in good heart and ready to begin its secondcentury with confidence.

Nicholas Bennett is currently Vice-Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral.

Bill Couth

Grantham during the Interregnum

$36.95

The minutes of the Corporation provide fascinating detail of the local impact of hostilities on the social and economic life of the town.

Grantham had considerable local importance as a garrison town for both sides during the first Civil War. Its situation on the Great North Road gave it additional military and strategic significance. The Hallbook contains the recorded minutes of Grantham Corporation; it reflects the fates of successive aldermen who joined the Royal forces, went as hostage to Lincoln, and suffered imprisonment in Nottingham castle, and it provides a fascinating glimpse intothe lives of the townspeople during this time of crisis. Householders were forced to pay taxes to both sides in the war, as well as shouldering their normal burden of taxation. Besides contributing to poor relief, their time and talents were also in demand for many tasks, including paving the streets, reinforcing the banks of the Witham, maintaining the town wells, doing watch and ward, paying quarteridge, and removing refuse from the streets. This latestvolume of the Lincoln Record Society provides much evidence about the local impact of hostilities on the social and economic life of the town.

Pauline Croft

The Spanish Company

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Margaret Archer

The Register of Bishop Philip Repingdon 1405-1419

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The Register of Bishop Philip Repingdon 1405-1419

Loreen L. Giese

London Consistory Court Depositions, 1586 - 1611: List and Indexes

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London Consistory Court Depositions, 1586 - 1611: List and Indexes

Elisabeth G. Kimball

Records of some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire, 1381-1396

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R.B. Beckett

Constable Correspondence volume 5 Various Friends

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Constable Correspondence volume 5 Various Friends

Rosalind M.T. Hill

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [IV]

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Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [IV]

David M. Smith

The Acta of Hugh of Wells, Bishop of Lincoln 1209-1235

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The diocese of Lincoln was the largest in medieval England, extending over nine counties, and the early thirteenth century saw considerable development in episcopal government and evident concern over Church reform in the aftermath of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Hugh of Wells brought to his diocese his experience as a royal official in the chancery of King John, and his tenure of the see was marked by transition and innovation, with particular emphasis on pastoral responsibilities at local level. This edition of his collected acta - over 450 - assembled from cathedral, monastic, and governmental archives, supplements the surviving summary enrolments and reveals Hughas an active and innovative diocesan at an important point in the history of the English Church.DAVID M. SMITH is Director of the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York.

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A. Hamilton Thompson

Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln, 1517-1531

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Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln, 1517-1531

H.S. Cobb

The Overseas Trade of London Exchequer Customs Accounts 1480-1

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The documents calendared in this volume consist of Petty Custom recordings of general imports and exports (other than wine, wool and hides) by alien merchants, and of cloth exports by alien and denizen merchants, in the port of London from Michaelmas 1480 to Michaelmas 1481; together with less detailed accounts for wool, wine and other commodities. Petty Custom accounts were kept by royal officials in each customs port, who recorded each ship entering or leaving, the merchant in whose name goods were shipped and each item of customable cargo.

The Overseas Trade of London Exchequer Customs Accounts 1480-1

Martyn Beardsley

`Gratefull to Providence': The Diary and Accounts of Matthew Flinders, Surgeon, Apothecary and Man-Midwife, 1775-1802

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Diaries and account books provide rich evidence for daily life at the time - and the early years of Matthew Flinders, credited with naming Australia.

Matthew Flinders, surgeon and apothecary of Donington, in south Lincolnshire, in the late eighteenth century, was the father of the Matthew Flinders, sailor, navigator and explorer, and one of the central figures in the early history of the Australian nation. His diaries, published here in full for the first time, reveal a wealth of detail about the home, the family and the village in which the future explorer grew up. The daily routine of business, socialising with neighbours, unusual events such as the beaching of a whale near Boston, or the visit to Donington of Mr Powell the famous fire-eater are recorded alongside family joys and sorrows, the births and deaths of children, thepassing of Flinders's beloved wife Susanna and his subsequent remarriage. The childhood and schooling of Matthew junior are a recurring theme, and the purchase of a two volume edition of Robinson Crusoe in 1782 gives a hint of things to come, though as the diaries reveal, his later career was a radical diversion from the original plan for him to follow in his father's path.

C.W. Foster

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [7]

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Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [7]

Robert J. Weber

Galdós Studies II

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Derek J Keene

A Survey of Documentary Sources for Property Holding in London Before The Great Fire

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A Survey of Documentary Sources for Property Holding in London Before The Great Fire

Edited by Elizabeth A. New

Records of the Jesus Guild in St Paul's Cathedral, c.1450-1550

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First printed edition of crucial material for our understanding of the pre-Reformation church.

Meeting in the crypt of Old St Paul's in the decades before the Reformation, the Jesus Guild, an expression of "cutting-edge" orthodox devotion, not only attracted members from the top ranks of London society but also derived support from men and women of all degrees across the whole country. As well as shedding welcome light on aspects of the devotional life shared by some of London's most influential citizens, its records illustrate many facets of the City's economy, of its citizens' inter-personal relationships and can, indeed, assist in determining linguistic developments at a critical juncture.

This volume reproduces for the first time all the extant records surviving for the Guild in the early sixteenth century, giving pride of place to the twenty consecutive years of its surviving accounts. Alongside the records for the guild, the volume presents the 1552 inventory of goods in St Faith's church and the expenses incurred by that parish when it moved into the space previously occupied by the Guild. These records reveal the influences of the religious changes of the 1550s on the crypt chapel and some of the Guild's possessions. The documents are edited with accompanying notes and glossary, complemented by an introduction that places them in a broad context and by biographies of the Guild wardens identified in the text.

Records of the Jesus Guild in St Paul's Cathedral, c.1450-1550

J.A. Johnston

Probate Inventories of Lincoln Citizens, 1661-1714

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Probate inventories (drawn up to protect the heirs to an estate and to facilitate the distribution of bequests) selected from mainly urban parishes yield detail on a wide range of occupations.

Sixty inventories selected from the 590 that survive for the thirteen parishes of the City and County of Lincoln between 1661 and 1714. The parishes chosen are those in which urban occupations and residences rather than agricultural predominate.
Probate inventories were drawn up to protect the heirs to an estate and to facilitate the distribution of bequests. This selection, together with an comprehensive introduction which includes a survey of the City of Lincoln and chapters on a wide range of occupations - butchers, farmers, gardeners, millers, bakers, goldsmiths etc., as well as a glossary of terms and an index of people and place names, makes fascinating reading, bothfor the serious scholar and for the armchair social historian. There is much here to study and to dip into.

Probate Inventories of Lincoln Citizens, 1661-1714

C.W. Foster

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [3]

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Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [3]

June Hall Martin

Love's Fools: Aucassin, Troilus, Calisto and the Parody of the Courtly Lover

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Love's Fools: Aucassin, Troilus, Calisto and the Parody of the Courtly Lover

H. Horwitz

London Politics 1713 - 1717

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Rosamund Sillem

Records of Some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire, 1360-1375

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Records of Some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire, 1360-1375

Edwin Welch

Two Calvinistic Methodist Chapels, 1748-1811

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Two Calvinistic Methodist Chapels, 1748-1811

Harold W. Brace

First Minute Book of the Gainsborough Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1699-1719 II

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First Minute Book of the Gainsborough Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1699-1719 II

C.M. Lloyd, Mary E. Finch

Letters from John Wallace to Madam Whichcot

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The steward reports to Madam Whichcott from Harpswell; Transaction of the church's legal business at Lincoln.

The steward reports to Madam Whichcott from Harpswell, c.1721-27; Transaction of the church's legal business at Lincoln, 1802-05.

Letters from John Wallace to Madam Whichcot

F.W. Steer

Scriveners' Company Common Paper, 1357-1628, with a continuation to 1678

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Scriveners' Company Common Paper, 1357-1628, with a continuation to 1678

Bernarr Rainbow

The Land without Music

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First published in 1967, this is more than a book about music education, it is also a social history of the subject.

First published 1967, long out of print, and now reprinted in full by kind permission of Novello and company, this book fills a gap that has long existed. It is the outcome of serious scholarly research, fully documented. More than a book about musical education, it is also a social history of education; yet always the general, social and educational references are related to the main theme - singing from symbols. Various methods are described and the author shows how these interact, ending with that "agent of synthesis" John Curwen. Everyone who teaches music, or is training to teach music, should read it. Salutary reading for anyone who thinks he or she has a new idea.

Helena M. Chew, Martin Weinbaum

The London Eyre of 1244

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Michael Jones

The White Book (Liber Albus) of Southwell

$145.00

First complete edition of an invaluable and extensive collection of medieval documents.

with contributions from Neil Bettridge, Jean Cameron, Paul Cavill and Teresa Webber.

The White Book of Southwell derives its name from its white vellum cover. Compiled between c.1350 and 1460, with a few later additions, its 500 pages record 620 individual documents from c.1100 onwards. They range widely from papal bulls and royal charters, quo warranto inquiries, privileges granted by many archbishops of York to the Chapter at Southwell,individual canons (or prebendaries) and the parishes where the Minster held lands or controlled livings. The majority date from c.1200-1460 and concern properties which the Chapter owned and administered through its courts, for which some rare proceedings are preserved. Because of their variety, the documents it contains are important not simply for ecclesiastical history but for broader social and economic trends in medieval Nottinghamshire either side of the Black Death. The volume also furnishes a remarkable amount of little-studied onomastic and linguistic evidence in medieval Latin, Anglo-Norman French and Middle English as well as strong traces of earlier Anglo-Scandinavianinfluences on Nottinghamshire.
First brought to attention by the pioneering county historian Robert Thoroton (d. 1677), the White Book has been consulted in all subsequent generations. However, while some of its contents havebeen published in their original language or in translation, this is the first systematic, complete scholarly edition. A substantial introduction sets the White Book in context, describing its structure and content. Extensive commentary helps to date many undated individual documents and identify persons and places named, a detailed Fasti provides details on the personnel of the Minster and its appendant churches, while detailed indexes assist consultation.

The White Book (<I>Liber Albus</I>) of Southwell

Barbara Megson

The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book 1462-1511

$85.00

The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book covers the accounts of the medieval craft of the Pinners between 1462 and 1511, prior to and following their meeger with the Wiremongers to form the Wiresellers Company in 1497. It is a most unusual volume since there are no other administrative records surviving from such a lowly craft in medieval London. It reveals how a small craft (some thirty members) struggled to maintain a hall, control working practices, license alien craftsmen and secure prayers for themselves and their families at the house of the Carmelite Friars in Fleet Street and St James's hospital in Westminster.

On occasion the Pinners joined forces with other crafts, such as the Girdlers in searching in the City to confiscate defective goods, or with the Cutlers to petition Parliament against the import of manufactured goods from abroad. However, in spite of their brave efforts, to which this slim volume bears witness, the Pinners were not able to remain an independent craft. They joined the Wiresellers in 1497, and this amalgamated craft itself went on to merge with the Girdlers in the sixteenth century.

This volume has never been in print before and has hitherto only rarely been used by historians. The London Record Society edition is enhanced by the inclusion of the wills of some thirty medieval pinners and wiresellers, most of which were registered in the Court of the Bishop of London's Commissary (whose records are now in Guildhall Library).

Barbara Megson read history at Girton College, Cambridge, and spent much of her professional life in the field of Education as a teacher, administrator and as H.M. Inspector of Schools. More recenlty she has focused her attention on the medieval city of London and in 1993 published Such Goodly Company: A Glimpse of theLife of Bowyers of London 1300-1600. She is currently working on a history of the Farriers of London.

The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book 1462-1511

F.J. Fetis, Bernarr Rainbow

Music Explained to the World (1844)

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An enlarged reissue of the first translation of Fétis' classic 1844 music text for the general public.

While teaching at the Conservatoire Nationale de Musique in Paris Fétis extended the student curriculum by lecturing on wider musical topics. He also produced a music textbook for the general public at this time with the title Lamusique mise à la portée de tout le monde (1830). The book enjoyed a very wide circulation, was translated into most European languages and became the first influential treatise on "musical appreciation" in the wider sense of theterm. The first English version, enlarged by ten per cent, of this important book is reproduced here.

C.W. Foster

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [5]

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Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [5]

N.W. James

The Bede Roll of the Fraternity of St Nicholas

$85.00

This edition of the Bede roll of this London fraternity has been published in two volumes: the first volume contains the text of the roll and the second volume provides an index to the nearly 7000 names of those who were members of the fraternity between 1449 and 1521. These included not only the clerks themselves and their wives, but also members of the nobility and high-ranking clergy. The bulk of the membership consisted of middle-ranking Londoners whodecided the extra prayers and funeral ceremony which the parish clerks could provide. The editors have also supplied an account of the immensely popular Parish Clerks fraternity and of the ways in which it was governed and administered.

The Bede Roll of the Fraternity of St Nicholas

J. S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe

The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1386-1421 [4 volume set]

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This 4 volume set contains the biographies of 3,175 individuals who sat in the House of Commons in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, providing not only a picture of political affiliations, aim and motives in seeking Membership, but also a study of other preocupations: the contrast between the code of chivalrous conduct and the reality of military service; the competitive pursuit of wealthy heiresses; the sometimes ambivalent relations between thelaity and the Church; and their fluctuating success and failures in the scramble for patronage and preferment from the Crown and baronetage alike.

Among those included are poets (Geoffrey Chaucer made an appearance in 1386), pirates (such as the notorious William Long and John Hawley), lollards (including Sir John Oldcastle, who met a traitor's death), henchmen of the king (most notably the infamous Bussy, Bagot and Green) and the most outstanding parliamentarians of the Middle Ages, among them Sir John Tiptoft, perhaps the youngest Speaker ever to be elected, the charismatic Thomas Chaucer (the poet's son), and the intrepid Sir Arnold Savage, whose verbal exchanges withHenry IV throw fresh light on the relationship between King and Commons in the 15th century.

Surveys of each of the 135 constituencies represented in Parliament in this period supply a detailed explanation of local politics, while information about the economic and constitutional background of each city and borough provides the context in which the MPs' biographies are set. The Introductory Survey in Volume I, the culmination of a lifetime's dedication to the subject by the distinguished historian J. S. Roskell, provides the most thorough examination yet undertaken of the work of the medieval House of Commons. Appendices supply tables on specific topics discussed in theIntroductory Survey and touched on in the biographies.

The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1386-1421 [4 volume set]

Walter Holtzmann

Papal Decretals relating to the Diocese of Lincoln in the 12th Century

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Editions (in Latin and translation) of papal letters expressing some principal of law, culled from collections of legally important documents which served the universities and the medieval church as law and text books.

Papal Decretals relating to the Diocese of Lincoln in the 12th Century

J.E. Varey

Teatros y Comedias en Madrid: 1666-1687

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Frank Freeman Foster

The Politics of Stability

$95.00

Tudor London, nominally under the control of the crown, was in reality ruled by its aldermen, who established firm civic government founded on the stabilising influence of the elitist merchant oligarchy.

By the fifteenth century, although ultimate authority over London rested in the crown's hands, the City's autonomy was no longer in dispute. The aldermen were the true rulers in London, and they further strengthened their hold oncivic government. What had seemed an emerging democracy in the mid-fourteenth century was modified and reassembled around what proved to be the stabilizing influence of an elitist merchant oligarchy.

Professor Emeritus Tim Hitchcock

Chelsea Settlement and Bastardy Examinations 1733 - 1766

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Chelsea Settlement and Bastardy Examinations 1733 - 1766

Michelle L. Beer

Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain

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A study of the performance of queenship by two Tudor monarchs, showing the strategies they used to assert their power.

Catherine of Aragon (r.1509-33) and her sister-in-law Margaret Tudor (r.1503-13) presided as queens over the glittering sixteenth-century courts of England and Scotland, alongside their husbands Henry VIII of England and James IVof Scotland. Although we know a great deal about these two formidable sixteenth-century kings, we understand very little about how their two queens contributed to their reigns. How did these young, foreign women become effective and trusted consorts, and powerful political figures in their own right?
This book argues that Catherine and Margaret's performance of queenship combined medieval queenly virtues with the new opportunities for influence and power offered by Renaissance court culture. Royal rituals such as childbirth and the Royal Maundy, courtly spectacles such as tournaments, banquets and diplomatic summits, or practices such as arranged marriages and gift-giving, were all moments when Catherine and Margaret could assert their honour, status and identity as queens. Their husbands' support for their activities at court helped bring them the influence and patronage necessary to pursue their ownpolitical goals and obtain favour and rewards for their servants and followers. Situating Catherine and Margaret's careers within the history of the royal courts of England and Scotland and amongst their queenly peers, this book reveals these two queens as intimately connected agents of political influence and dynastic power.

Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain

J.E. Varey

Teatros y Comedias en Madrid 1651-65

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Robin Woolven

The London Diary of Anthony Heap, 1931-1945

$85.00

Diaries from the 1930s and 1940s reveal the reality of living in London during wartime.

Anthony Heap (1910-1985) kept a daily diary, recording his life in St Pancras, his work, loves and experiences from the age of 17 until shortly before his death. This volume provides selected extracts from the 1930s and the SecondWorld War, an eventful period during which his father committed suicide, Heap joined Mosley's Fascists, and then stood for the local Conservatives in 1937; the author vividly recounts what it was like to live through the Blitz, sleeping in air-raid shelters, and viewing the nightly raids on London. The diary also recounts more personal details, his fondness for weekly drinking in pubs in Fitzrovia and Hampstead, a series of girlfriends before marrying in1941, and his love of the theatre: it is predictably opinionated, often infuriating and cutting, but never dull.
The extracts are presented here with notes, introduction, and an outline of the principal people involved.

Robin Woolven researched wartime London for his PhD, gained from King's College, London. His primary research interest concerns the twentieth-century history of Camden (Hampstead, Holborn and St Pancras).

The London Diary of Anthony Heap, 1931-1945

C.W. Foster

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [facs 8-10]

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Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [facs 8-10]

Ruth Paley

Justice in Eighteenth-Century Hackney: The Justicing Notebook of Henry Norris and the Hackney Petty Sessions Book

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Justice in Eighteenth-Century Hackney: The Justicing Notebook of Henry Norris and the Hackney Petty Sessions Book

Barbara Gribling

The Image of Edward the Black Prince in Georgian and Victorian England

$75.00

Studies the manifestations of Edward the Black Prince in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

During the Georgian and Victorian periods, the fourteenth-century hero Edward the Black Prince became an object of cultural fascination and celebration; he and his battles played an important part in a wider reimagining of the British as a martial people, reinforced by an interest in chivalric character and a burgeoning nationalism.
Drawing on a wealth of literature, histories, drama, art and material culture, this book explores the uses of Edward'simage in debates about politics, character, war and empire, assessing the contradictory meanings ascribed to the late Middle Ages by groups ranging from royals to radicals. It makes a special claim for the importance of the fourteenth century as a time of heroic virtues, chivalric escapades, royal power and parliamentary development, adding to a growing literature on Georgian uses of the past by exposing an active royal and popular investment in the medieval. Disputing current assumptions that the Middle Ages represented a romanticized and unproblematic past, it shows how this investment was increasingly contested in the Victorian era.

Barbara Gribling is an Honorary Fellow in Modern British History at Durham University.

The Image of Edward the Black Prince in Georgian and Victorian England

Dorothy Sherman Severin

Memory in 'La Celestina'

$75.00

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Helen Bradley

The Views of the Hosts of Alien Merchants, 1440-1444

$85.00

Edition of the returns made by English merchants, recording the transactions of foreign traders.

The "Views of Hosts" is the name given to the returns which merchant "hosts" in London, Southampton and Hull were required to provide for the Exchequer. They listed the imports and purchases made by their foreign merchant "guests", who came mostly from Italy, Spain and the Low Countries. The returns, printed here in full for the first time, provide details of the goods traded in and out of these ports, and also the names of the foreign merchants, and of the local men and women who bought their wares and sold English goods to them in return. The volume thus not only throws light on individual merchants and craftsmen living and working in these ports, but will also be of interest tothose concerned with the patterns and practices of English trade in the fifteenth century. The returns themselves are complemented with full apparatus and notes; introduction; biographies of more than 500 English people mentionedin the texts, as well almost 130 foreign merchants; and a glossary of commodities.

The Views of the Hosts of Alien Merchants, 1440-1444

M. H. Port

The Commissions for Building Fifty New Churches

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