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The Register of the Goldsmiths' Company: Deeds and Documents, c. 1190 to c. 1666 - Vol I - III (Hardcover)
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The Register of the Goldsmiths' Company: Deeds and Documents, c. 1190 to c. 1666 - Vol I - III (Hardcover)
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This three-volume edition provides translations of the Goldsmiths'
Company Register of Deeds with full explicatory annotation, and
with a clear introduction to both the manuscript and the legal
texts contained in it. The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths,
commonly known as the Goldsmiths' Company, is one of the twelve
Great Livery Companies of the City of London. This three-volume
edition provides translations of the company's Register of Deeds
with full explicatory annotation and with a clear introduction to
both the manuscript and the legal texts contained within.
Additionally, the volumes contain detailed name and subject
indexes. The company's Register of Deeds has never been fully
utilised by historians, but it contains a record copy made from the
fifteenth century onwards of the original deeds of the company's
acquisitions of property from the reign of King Richard I to the
seventeenth century. These deeds reveal much about the precise
location of properties and their inhabitants. Wills, often
appearing in the Register, help to piece together a social history
of the time. Charitable purposes were often the reason for monies
or property bequeathed to the Goldsmiths, sometimes of an
educational nature, or of almsgiving to the poor, or for the
training and support of young goldsmiths and silversmiths. Many
documents also concern women, either acting solely in their own
name or jointly with a husband, sometimes also appearing as
daughters or sisters, providing evidence regarding their legal
position during the medieval and early modern period. The editing
and translation of these documents (from Latin and French into
modern-day English) will be of great use to historians interested
in the buildings of medieval and Tudor London and their use as
personal or business premises. But beyond these obvious confines,
these so far hidden sources will help to rewrite a social, legal,
and economic history of medieval and Tudor London. SPECIAL
INTRODUCTORY PRICE: GBP395/$575. Rises to full price GBP450/$650 on
1st January 2023.
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