The Records of a Commission of Sewers for Wiggenhall 1319-1324, edited by Arthur E. B. Owen
Commissioners of sewers were responsible for drainage administration in the Fenland and adjacent areas for many centuries.
William Asshebourne’s Book, Edited by Dorothy M. Owen
The important manuscript which is presented here in an abbreviated form is a loosley bound parchment book, containing one hundred and twenty nine folios. It’s contents show it to have been a private memorandum book kept by the common clerk of Lynn, William Asshebourne, in the early fifteenth century, at a time of great municipal upheaval.
Before he entered the service of the town authorities Asshebourne had been employed by the Bishop’s administration, in the episcopal liberty at Lynn.
Series: Norfolk Record Society
Volume Number: XLVIII
Year of Publication: 1981
Edited By: Arthur Ernest Bion Owen, Dorothy Mary Owen
Cover: Hardcover
Language: English
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Subjects:
- Drainage — England — Fens — History;
- King’s Lynn (Norfolk) — Politics and government;
- East Anglia Fens Agricultural land Drainage 1319-1324;
- Norfolk King’s Lynn Local government 1400-1415;
