{"product_id":"the-louth-st-james-churchwardens-accounts-1527-1570-9781910653166","title":"The Louth St James Churchwardens’ Accounts: 1527-1570","description":"\u003cb\u003eTudor Paperwork: accounts revealing the trials and tribulations of church officials during the Reformation period.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Louth churchwarden's accounts are some of the county's most comprehensive surviving parish records.  These continue in an almost unbroken sequence from the beginning of the sixteenth century, opening a panorama on the financial undertakings of a large and relatively prosperous parish church. The first published transcription, edited by Reginald Dudding, Rector of Saleby (1859-1937), covered the years 1500\/1 to 1523\/4 and recount the construction of the church's magnificent spire in considerable detail.  The documents transcribed in this present publication date from 1527\/8 to 1570\/1 and comprise of two volumes now deposited in the Lincolnshire Archives.  These, alongside the comprehensive parish registers commencing in 1538, illustrate the fiscal and social interactions between a local parish church and its parishioners. Importantly, although these texts are in hindsight historically significant, to the churchwardens of the period they were primarily a statement of the financial situation of the church; merely Tudor paperwork.","brand":"Brian Hodgkinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280297767163,"sku":"9781910653166","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781910653166.jpg?v=1772487965","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-louth-st-james-churchwardens-accounts-1527-1570-9781910653166","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}