Stratton Churchwardens' Accounts, 1512-1578

Spanning the period 1512-78, the High Cross churchwardens' accounts of Stratton, in Cornwall, are unusually complete and informative. Written mostly in English, they are among only eighteen surviving sets of Pre-Reformation churchwardens' accounts which cover the whole period 1535-70, when most Reformation change took place.

List of contents

Introduction
Editorial Method
Part 1: High Cross and Churchwardens' Book 1512-1578
Part 2: General Receivers' Book 1: 1531, 1534-1549
Part 3: General Receivers' Book 2: 1557-1582
Appendix 1: Rood loft contract and bond 29 May to 14 July 1531 403
Appendix 2: Draft accounts
Appendix 3: Church inventories
Appendix 4: Church house court case interogatories and depositions
Glossary
Notes on people
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Joanna Mattingly

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Mattingly
• Assisted by: Joanna Mattingly (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.02.2018
• EAN: 9780901853608
• ISBN: 978-0-901853-60-8
• No. of pages: 333
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Devon and Cornwall Record Soci; Devon and Cornwall Record Society; Devon and Cornwall Record Soci; Devon and Cornwall Record Society
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918