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Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474 - Wills from the Register `Baldwyne', I. 1439-1461 (Hardcover)
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Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474 - Wills from the Register `Baldwyne', I. 1439-1461 (Hardcover)
Series: Suffolk Records Society
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Suffolk wills of ordinary inhabitants illustrate all aspects of the
social conditions of the time. ARCHIVES: The making and registering
of wills by ordinary people became widespread in East Anglia a
century earlier than parts of midland and western England. It is of
enormous value therefore to have one of the earliest surviving
registers from an archdeaconry made available. [The volume]
provides us with a window into rural society in
mid-fifteenth-century East Anglia. It was a society bustling with
small farmers, craftsmen involved in the cloth industry, and other
artisans and traders. The wills record their concern for religion,
the local community and the future welfare of wives, children,
godchildren and even servants. There is a wealth of information
here for the historianof religion, the family, material culture,
agriculture and industry. This volume contains abstracts, in
English, of nearly nine hundred wills made by residents of the
western part of Suffolk in the mid-fifteenth century, together with
a further five hundred 'probate sentences' - details of the
granting of probate, without the associated wills. These are the
earliest surviving wills of ordinary inhabitants of that part of
Suffolk, excluding the titled, the wealthy and the clergy. They
illustrate in considerable detail the social conditions of the
time, including housing and household possessions, landholding and
farming patterns, and provision for the poor. They are especially
rich in references to the religious practices of the day. The
introduction outlines the probate system of the area at that time
and examines the form and content of a medieval will.
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