The town finances of Elizabethan Ipswich : select treasurers' and chamberlains' accounts
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The town finances of Elizabethan Ipswich : select treasurers' and chamberlains' accounts
(Suffolk Records Society, v. 38)
Boydell, 1996
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General editor: Diarmaid MacCulloch
Includes index
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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.
Table of Contents
- A note on the covers of accounts
- tables I-III - a schedule of extant accounts of Ipswich treasurers and chamberlains before 1603
- treasurers' accounts - 1559-60, 1571-2, 1577-8, 1586-7, 1593-4
- chamberlains' accounts - 1568-9, 1571-2, 1577-8, 1586-7, 1601-2
- appendices - treasurers 1558-1603, chamberlains 1558-1603, treasurers' annual income and expenditure, chamberlains' annual income and expenditure, the oaths of office, inventories of items in the custody of the treasurer.
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