The Town Finances of Elizabethan Ipswich Select Treasurers' and Chamberlains' Accounts Hardback
Edited by John Webb
Part of the Suffolk Records Society series
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Selected treasurers' and chamberlains' accounts detailing the income and expenditure of a wealthy provincial town and port, and revealing urban life from travelling players to punishing criminals. The treasurers' and chamberlains' accounts of Elizabethan Ipswich are a detailed record of the annual income and expenditure of the town's ruling body during one of the most fascinating periods of its history.
A major source for any detailed study of the Suffolk borough at a time when it was among the country's ten richest provincial towns, the entries selected from the accounts not only shed light on sixteenth-century urban administration but also providevivid insights into the social and economic life of the period: the equipping of soldiers, ducking of scolds, and performances of town minstrels and itinerant players.JOHN WEBB was formerly Principal Lecturer in History at Portsmouth Polytechnic.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:198 pages, 7 b/w, 2 line illus.
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:07/11/1996
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- ISBN:9780851156439
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:198 pages, 7 b/w, 2 line illus.
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:07/11/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780851156439
