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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

by Mark Merry; Catherine Richardson

Published by The Dugdale Society. 1st. 2012

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.

Couple of minor foxspots to vertical edge of text block else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed, vertical creasing to rear flap.

ISBN: 9780852200933
Stock no. 1830220

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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

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