Devon Household Accounts 1627-59, Part 1: Sir Richard and Lady Lucy Reynell of Forde (1627-48), John Willoughby of Leyhill (1644-46) and Sir Edward Wise of Sydenham and Part 2: Henry, Fifth Earl of Bath, and Rachel, Countess of Bath, of Tawstock and London (1637-1655)

GRAY, Todd (editor)

ISBN 10: 0901853399 / ISBN 13: 9780901853394

Verlag: Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Exeter, 1996, 1996

Beschreibung

TWO VOLUMES pbks 8vo part 1: 343pp; part 2: 394pp illustrated slight shelfwear to covers and bump to rear lower corner of volume 2 otherwise excellent unused clean tight texts.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BH1083

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Devon Household Accounts 1627-59, Part 1: Sir Richard and Lady Lucy Reynell of Forde (1627-48), John Willoughby of Leyhill (1644-46) and Sir Edward Wise of Sydenham and Part 2: Henry, Fifth Earl of Bath, and Rachel, Countess of Bath, of Tawstock and London (1637-1655)
• Verlag: Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Exeter, 1996
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0901853399
• ISBN-13: 9780901853394
• Einband: Soft cover
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • British history

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Inhaltsangabe

This comprises the household accounts of the only noble family then resident in Devon. Remarkable for their richness and diversity, the collection of documents has not been previously published and will considerably add to our understanding of the county's social history in the seventeenth century. The rare survival of parallel London and provincial accounts allows invaluable comparisons and analysis which will be of wide appeal. The accounts recorded thehousehold's very fabric from the servants' financial particulars (including their wages, clothing and diet) to minute details of such purchases as furniture, silver, musical instruments and pictures. There are also recurring entries for the planting of the extensive terraced garden and unusual entries such as the purchase of an organ from Gloucester and the construction of the Great Coach. The continual movement of the Earl and Countess between Devon and London is shown and this is of added significance given that the Earl was the county's leading Royalist and the accounts cover the entire Civil War period. There are accounts for the Earl's diet in 1642 while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and the volume also includes the Countess' personal account book in which she recorded their Civil War involvement.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

TODD GRAY MBE is Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and the author or editor of a number of volumes on Exeter and Devon including William Birchynshaw's Map of Exeter, 1743 and The Chronicle of Exeter, 1205-1722.