The sixty inventories printed in this volume have been 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 a 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, both for the serious scholar and for the armchair social historian. There is much here to study and to dip into.
Adapted from the Introduction and the Boydell and Brewer website blurb. There is no blurb on the dust jacket.
Probate inventories were drawn up to protect the heirs to an estate and to facilitate the distribution of bequests. This selection, together with a 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, both for the serious scholar and for the armchair social historian. There is much here to study and to dip into.
Adapted from the Introduction and the Boydell and Brewer website blurb. There is no blurb on the dust jacket.
Volume 80 Probate Inventories of Lincoln Citizens 1661-1714
Editor J.A. Johnston
Date For the year ending 31st August 1989
Publication Date 1991
Size 235 x 155 mm
Language English. The text uses the original seventeenth century spelling set in a modern typeface.
Publisher A Lincoln Record Society Publication Published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604, USA
Printer and binder Woolnough Bookbinding Ltd., Irthlingborough, Northants
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984
ISBN 0 901503 53 3
Content Preface, 1 page
Contents, 1 page
Tables & Illustrations, 1 page
Editorial Method, 1 page
Introduction, map & plates, 68 pages
Inventories 1 – 59, 142 pages
Appendix 1 The Population of Lincoln 1642-1721, 2 pages
Glossary, 8 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 3 pages
Index of Subjects, 2 pages
Description The sixty inventories printed in this volume have been 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 a 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, both for the serious scholar and for the armchair social historian. There is much here to study and to dip into.
Adapted from the Introduction and the Boydell and Brewer website blurb. There is no blurb on the dust jacket.
Review `very few historians [had] begun to recognize the value of inventories in town studies-a pioneer-This is a splendid volume, not only for the light which it sheds on Lincoln life, but the wider implications for late seventeenth century urban society.' LINCS HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
Editor J.A. Johnston
Date For the year ending 31st August 1989
Publication Date 1991
Size 235 x 155 mm
Language English. The text uses the original seventeenth century spelling set in a modern typeface.
Publisher A Lincoln Record Society Publication Published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604, USA
Printer and binder Woolnough Bookbinding Ltd., Irthlingborough, Northants
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984
ISBN 0 901503 53 3
Content Preface, 1 page
Contents, 1 page
Tables & Illustrations, 1 page
Editorial Method, 1 page
Introduction, map & plates, 68 pages
Inventories 1 – 59, 142 pages
Appendix 1 The Population of Lincoln 1642-1721, 2 pages
Glossary, 8 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 3 pages
Index of Subjects, 2 pages
Description The sixty inventories printed in this volume have been 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 a 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, both for the serious scholar and for the armchair social historian. There is much here to study and to dip into.
Adapted from the Introduction and the Boydell and Brewer website blurb. There is no blurb on the dust jacket.
Review `very few historians [had] begun to recognize the value of inventories in town studies-a pioneer-This is a splendid volume, not only for the light which it sheds on Lincoln life, but the wider implications for late seventeenth century urban society.' LINCS HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY