Stratton churchwardens' accounts, 1512-1578 / edited by Joanna Mattingly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattingly, Joanna, editor.

Contributor:

Devon and Cornwall Record Society, sponsoring body.

Series:

Devon and Cornwall Record Society (Series) ; 60.

Devon and Cornwall Record Society publications. New series ; 60.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Churchwardens' accounts--England--Cornwall (County)--History--16th century--Sources.

Churchwardens' accounts.

History.

England--Cornwall (County).

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

viii, 322 pages: illustrations (black-and-white and color), maps, plans, photographs ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Suffolk : Published by the Boydell Press, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2018.

Summary:

Spanning the period 1512-78, the High Cross churchwardens' accounts of Stratton, in Cornwall, are unusually complete and informative. Written mostly in English, they are among only eighteen surviving sets of Pre-Reformation churchwardens' accounts which cover the whole period 1535-70, when most Reformation change took place. These accounts allow us to track the progress of the Reformation in a single parish and its impact on the lives of ordinary people. Stratton, in addition, has a partial set of general receivers' or stock wardens' accounts, which give much additional information about the parish to 1581 and beyond. They show how much has been lost from other parishes, shed light on the 1548-9 Cornish rebellions and enable a more narrative approach to be taken than is usually possible with churchwardens' accounts, often dismissed as mere lists. The volume also makes extensive use of the Blanchminster Charity records at the Cornwall Record Office, including deeds and leases of church lands, and an Elizabethan court case with rare pictorial plans showing Stratton's church, church house and marketplace. Together, these documents give a rounded picture of life in Stratton in a period of important religious change. Book jacket.

Contents:

Stratton High Cross and general receivers' accounts 1

The parish of Stratton 4

Markets, fairs and the church house 8

Manors and landowners 11

St Andrew's church and its building projects 13

Catholic Stratton 17

The Reformation in Stratton parish, 1534-81 23

The poor and bereft 31

Editorial Method 37

Part 1 High Cross Wardens' And Churchwardens' Book: 1512-78 39

Part 2 General Receivers' Account Book 1: 1531, 1534-49 145

Part 3 General Receivers' Account Book 2: 1557-81 165.

Notes:

includes bibliography (pages 276-281), glossary of terms, Notes on People, and index.

ISBN:

0901853607

9780901853608

OCLC:

999549768