This book, the earliest of its series, shows how Norfolk was governed during the uncertain days of the Commonwealth.  Control of the poor, punishment of the workshy, regulation of trade and wages, bastards and runaway apprentices were the daily concern of the justices in the 1650s.


Series: Norfolk Record Society

Volume Number: XXVI

Year of Publication: 1955

Edited By: James David Elidyr Howell

Cover: Hardcover

Language: English

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Tags: 17th Century, Commonwealth, Government, Justices of the Peace, Norfolk, Politics, Quarter Sessions