THE HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNT BOOK OF SIR THOMAS PUCKERING OF WARWICK, 16:20: LIVING IN LONDON AND THE MIDLANDS WITH HIS PROBATE INVENTORY, 1637
Written by Mark Merry, Catherine Richardson
Published by The Dugdale Society
in 2012
ISBN: 9780852200933
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THE HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNT BOOK OF SIR THOMAS PUCKERING OF WARWICK, 16:20: LIVING IN LONDON AND THE MIDLANDS WITH HIS PROBATE INVENTORY, 1637
Written by Mark Merry, Catherine Richardson.
Stock no. 1830220
1st.
2012.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Dugdale Society Vol. 45. Edited by Mark Merry and Catherine Richardson. A rare and significant insight into the life and society of a baronet and member of parliament. The accounts record both routine occurences , such as weeding the garden or paying servants' wages, and extraordinary events such as the building of a banqueting house of the welcoming of travelling players. Blue cloth boards. Gilt title to spine. x and 341 pages. ISBN: 9780852200933. Couple of minor foxspots to vertical edge of text block else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed, vertical creasing to rear flap.
Front cover
Contents
- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE
- LIST OF FIGURES
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- Sir Thomas Puckering
- The Account Book
- The Construction of elite identity
- The Account Book as a document
- Editorial Approach
- THE DOCUMENTS
- SIR THOMAS PUCKERING'S ACCOUNT BOOK, 1620
- SIR THOMAS PUCKERING'S PROBATE INVENTORY, 1637
- APPENDIX: 'MEREVALE ACCOUNTS', 1620
- FAMILY TREES
- ABBREVIATIONS
- BOOKS AND ARTICILES CITED
- INDEX