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Stories, statistics and meticulous maps reveal new insights into forgotten rural history of 1953 East Coast Floods.
Medieval manorial records provide a unique insight into the economic and social life of local communities, as well as the different approaches adopted by lords in managing their estates.
A paperback edition of James Maggs' diaries which vividly evoke daily life in Victorian Suffolk, the fortunes and tragedies of the seafarers and townsfolk of Southwold.
Detailed evidence of the workings of local administration and justice in the fourteenth century.
A transcription of the notes made by a young doctor during his time working at a provincial general hospital.
Pocket-books and other documents of a gentleman-parson bring the Georgian era vividly to life.
The story, in documents and illustrations, of an aristocratic couple, their family, their livelihoods and their houses.
Monks Eleigh was one of the principal units of medieval administration, providing a legal framework for land tenure, the prosecution of crimes and misdemeanours and social control.
An important 15th century source throws light on the organisation of what was one of medieval England's wealthiest ports.
Edition of the records of a medieval Suffolk eyre reveal rich details of life at the time.
This volume is a companion to the Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474, edited in two parts under the aegis of the Suffolk Records Society. It provides comprehensive, separate indexes to both, covering people andplaces, and subjects.
Edition and translation of an important legal document, shedding new light on legal developments in medieval England.
Edition of all surviving letters originating from long-vanished Suffolk mansion, an important part of the correspondence of one of Tudor and Stuart England's most powerful families.
Facsimiles of four rare mid-eighteenth-century maps of Suffolk, and early roadbook from the same period.
A register of titles to property in the borough.
Surveys of the two manors of Walsham-le-Willows, 1577, embracing agriculture, patterns of tenure, domestic and farm buildings and the social structure of the community.
The letter-book of William of Hoo is a hybrid between a formulary and letter-book with over 200 entries. It begins with fifty six entries which are pure forms, with initials instead of names or places and no dates, and ends with more or less complete copies of letters with full names and dates. William of Hoo was the sacrist of Bury St Edmunds from 1280-1294. As such he owned many manors and was virtually lord of the borough of Bury St Edmunds, he not onlydrew the rents, tolls and other profits of the borough but also presided over the borough court, held the view of frankpledge, was in charge of the song school and grammar school, and of the mint, and was responsible for enforcing of the assizes of weights and measures, and bread and ale. As the Abbot's deputy he also performed the functions of archdeacon. The letter-book illustrates his varied activities with entries concerning the probate of wills, matrimony and the enforcement of morality in the borough.
The life and work of a provincial merchant, his organisation of his business affairs, and his role in civic life.
Records of Tooley benefaction and municipal poorhouse, together with assessments and payment of relief, c.1550-1600.
In the 1640s Parliament intervened against clergymen with Royalist sympathies, and in the political jargon of the time they were referred to as 'Scandalous Ministers'. As the Civil War developed two Suffolk committees were empowered to hear evidence against any minister (or schoolmaster) who was 'scandalous' in either life or doctrine, or in any way 'malignant' (ill-affected to Parliament). This volume shows how the national split was mirrored in a Suffolkvillage with questions of allegiance being posed at parish level. The records in this book are, for the most part, the charges bought by Suffolk parishioners, and provide an account of popular religious beliefs. Perhaps most valuable are the splendid cameos of rural life; of the constables of Blyford undertaking a midnight raid on an unlicenced alehouse to impress soldiers; of the Christmas celebrations at Little Cornard; of Nicholas Stoneham watching a Sunday football match at Eyke.
In the absence of borough status and after the winding up of the guilds, the townsmen of Bury St Emunds experiment with town government.
Suffolk wills of ordinary inhabitants illustrate all aspects of the social conditions of the time.
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