Country and City: Wymondham, Norwich and Eaton in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The
Wymondham Town Book
1585-1620.
Edited John Wilson MA.
Ordinances of the Norwich Carpenters' Company 1594 and 1684.
Edited by Philip Howard MA, MPhil.
John Aldrich of Eaton Farm Accounts 1663-1667.
Edited by Andrew Hickley MA.
Three aspects of Norfolk's 16th- and 17th-century history are documented here.
Wymondham is shown piecing together a corporate identity after the loss of its abbey and its many religious guilds at the Reformation and coping with problems that included the maintenance of its poor and a devastating fire in 1615.
The Norwich Carpenters' Company ordinances attempt to perpetuate a system that had its roots in the Middle Ages and was coming under competition from non-guild craftsmen including those from the City's immigrant communities.
John Aldrich's farming practices in the 1660s anticipate the agricultural changes of the next century especially in the large-scale cultivation of turnips in a mainly enclosed landscape.
(2006, 259pp)
(ISBN: 9780953829897)
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