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Volume 106

Borough Government in Newton’s Grantham – The Hall Book of Grantham, 1649-1662

7 July 2016 by

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Regulation of crafts and trades, setting the poor to work, upkeep of streets, the provision of godly ministers and schoolmasters and even the maintenance of the church fabric (notably its famous spire) were all matters of concern for the borough government in mid-seventeenth-century Grantham. The Hall Book (1633-1704), the earliest surviving record of the proceedings of the Alderman’s Court, has much to tell us about the way the Corporation administered the affairs of the town.
NewtonsGrantham
Regulation of crafts and trades, setting  the poor to work, upkeep of streets,  the provision of godly ministers and  schoolmasters and even the maintenance of  the church fabric (notably its famous spire)  were all matters of concern for the borough  government in mid-seventeenth-century  Grantham. The Hall Book (1633-1704), the  earliest surviving record of the proceedings  of the Alderman’s Court, has much to  tell us about the way the Corporation  administered the affairs of the town.

This volume takes the story up to the  Restoration settlement of 1660-2; it spans  the time during which the young Isaac  Newton attended the town’s Grammar  School, lodging with William Clarke,  a wealthy apothecary and prominent  member of the Comburgesses, as the  senior twelve of the Borough Court were  known, and the restoration to office of  former Royalists purged in 1647. It contains  some 1,500 entries, along with an appendix,  which will be invaluable to local and family  historians, providing details of all those  who served as members of the Corporation  as Comburgesses and Second Twelve  men during this period. The introduction  examines the town in the seventeenth  century, its ruling corporate elite and civic  culture.

Jacket Front: ‘Grantham Hall Book: detail showing  the names of those attending the first Court of  Alderman Thomas Doughty on 30 October 1657 by  kind permission of Lincolnshire Archives and South  Kesteven District Council.’
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