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Evesham Borough Records of the Seventeenth Century
Editor: Stephen K. Roberts (new series 14, 1994) Calendar and transcripts of the borough order book and minute book, in a turbulent period of the town’s development. "The introduction … is exemplary…urban historians will find much to interest them here." Paul Slack
Register of Simon de Montacute, Bishop of Worcester, 1334-1337
Editor: Roy Haines (new series 15, 1996) The order book of a medieval bishop in the age of Edward III, revealing how he ruled his diocese. "Altogether a most handsome volume ... a detailed and lively picture of life in the English church." A. K. McHardy
Inventories of Worcestershire Landed Gentry, 1537-1786
Editor: Malcolm Wanklyn (new series 16, 1998) A collection of inventories of household, occupational and personal effects made after the deaths of Worcestershire gentry. "A fine volume and useful source for agricultural and social historians of early modern England." Peter Edwards
Census of Religious Worship, 1851. The Return for Worcestershire
Editor: John Aitken (new series 17, 2000) The only detailed census ever made of religious worship, revealing patterns in religious affiliations. "The entries contain some wonderful vignettes of mid-19th century British life ... more than just a dry collection of census returns ... of interest both to local historians and to historians of religious observance at the national level." Stephen M. Lee
Records of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. c. 1147-1547
Editor: James P. Toomey (new series 18, 2001) A profuse collection of documents relating to a single parish, illuminating the lives of ordinary people in the middle ages. "Historians of both lords and tenants should take serious notice of this volume." Christine Carpenter
Worcestershire Taxes in the 1520s. The Military Survey and Forced Loans of 1522-3 and the Lay Subsidy of 1524-7
Editor: Michael Faraday (new series 19, 2003) Lists of sixteenth-century taxpayers in the county, which provide an indispensable guide to property and wealth. This edition will be of the greatest interest to family and social historians. “This edition has been prepared with meticulous care and scholarship, well presented and has a helpful introduction, with some good tabulated analyses of the data” Alan Dyer
Court Rolls of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, 1347-1564
Editor: Robert K. Field ((new series 20, 2004)) Records of the manor court at Elmley Castle, which provide ample evidence of the way a medieval community regulated its affairs and organised its agricultural work. “This [is a] meticulous and well-introduced edition ... [with] excellent indices, of everyday life in an open-field village” Harold Fox
Records of Feckenham Forest, Worcestershire, c. 1236-1377
Editor: Jean Birrell (new series 21, 2006) Provides a detailed and fascinating insight into the working of the king’s law in the forested area of south-east Worcestershire. Details of the forest economy, poaching, property holding and very large numbers of names of forest-dwellers over a wide range of parishes. Of great interest to social, economic and family historians. An ‘exemplary edition … by a leading authority on medieval English forests’ (Mark Page)
NEW The Worcestershire Eyre of 1275
Jens Röhrkasten (new series, 22, 2008) The operation of the king’s principal law court held at Worcester is traced in this volume. The records for the court held in 1275 are virtually complete, and they tell us in detail about the crimes, criminals and victims of 13th century England, as well as about the legal procedures of the time. This volume is proof that violent crime and sudden death were a commonplace of everyday life in the middle ages. The edition includes comprehensive indexes of names and places.
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