Alan Rogers
Publisher
Abramis
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
iv, 299 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24x16 cm (10x7 in).
Language
English
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The manuscript of the register of the gild of St Katherine, Stamford (Gonville and Caius MSS 266/670), has been known for some time and consulted by a small number of scholars, but it has not been more generally available. This edition is intended to make it more widely accessible for study. The gild met in the room over the porch of the parish church of St Paul in Stamford, a church which for more than a century housed an anchoress on the north side....
Publisher
Abramis Academic Publishing, an imprint of Arima Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
367 pages : facsimiles, maps ; 25x17 cm (10x7 in).
Language
English
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This exceptional account book includes some journal entries of successive wardens of Browne's Hospital, Stamford, 1495-1518, revealing their frustrations as they sought to manage far-flung rural estates in Lincolnshire, Rutland and Northants, as well as in the town of Stamford. They faced declining income which led them to leave some places in the Hospital empty (the entries and departures of the bedesmen and women are recorded, thus providing an...