The Early Town Books Of Faversham C.1251-1581..
Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, with pictorial dust wrappers depicting the earliest town seal. Limited edition of 250 numbered and signed copies, of which this is no. xli.
£100.00
Details
FAVERSHAM RECORDS - LIMITED EDITION.
Publisher
[Lyminge]; privately published by History Research,
Date
2008
Synopsis
The first town book, compiled c.1382-c.1405, being a collection of documents dating from 1251 relating to the legal status of the borough. the second town book comprises the town accounts, wardmote minutes and other records for the period 1436-1581. by duncan harrington and patricia hyde. parts i and ii.
Item Description
2 Vols. Folio. 8.5 x 12 inches. Vol.I. xcviii + 350 pp.; Vol.II. vi + 351-774 pp. Illustrated by two colour frontispieces and 27 figures, including maps (Vol. II fig. 25, misnumbered as 20) and endpaper maps of medieval Faversham. Half-titles.
Notes
'The Town Books of Faversham c.1251-1581 are invaluable because they provide the basis for the history of the town in that period. This was complicated because there were so many disputes over jurisdiction, but this is why the townsmen treasured the Town Books over the centuries and turned to them again and again...The second town book records amongst many other things the activities of Thomas Arden, a mayor of Faversham...legendary as the gentleman murdered in 1551 by his wife, Alice and nine other conspirators...the events were immortalised in an anonymous play, Arden of Faversham, first published in 1592 and still in repertory.'
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