Sunderland Wills and Inventories, 1601-1650
Joan Briggs (Ed.)
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Description for Sunderland Wills and Inventories, 1601-1650
Hardcover.
Edition, with full explanatory apparatus, of wills and inventories from north-east England. Complete editorial team: Joan Briggs, Rita McGhee, John Smith, Jennifer Tindell, Ann Tumman, Xenia Webster What was to become the town of Sunderland emerged in the earlier seventeenth century from two parishes north and south of the river Wear, Monkwearmouth and Bishopwearmouth, developing from a small fishing village into a significant east-coast port and industrial centre; a charter granted by the bishop of Durham in 1630 confirms its status. This volume comprises its surviving probate documents from the period 1601-50, containing ... Read more
Edition, with full explanatory apparatus, of wills and inventories from north-east England. Complete editorial team: Joan Briggs, Rita McGhee, John Smith, Jennifer Tindell, Ann Tumman, Xenia Webster What was to become the town of Sunderland emerged in the earlier seventeenth century from two parishes north and south of the river Wear, Monkwearmouth and Bishopwearmouth, developing from a small fishing village into a significant east-coast port and industrial centre; a charter granted by the bishop of Durham in 1630 confirms its status. This volume comprises its surviving probate documents from the period 1601-50, containing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Surtees Society United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Durham, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780854440696
SKU
V9780854440696
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Sunderland Wills and Inventories, 1601-1650
This is a nicely produced edition of interesting documents which will prove useful not just to local historians of north-east England but to many students and researchers of everyday life in early modern England.
HISTORY
The volume has been well edited. The documents are transcribed in full and carefully referenced, and there is a very necessary glossary, clearly ... Read more
HISTORY
The volume has been well edited. The documents are transcribed in full and carefully referenced, and there is a very necessary glossary, clearly ... Read more