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By the latter half of the seventeenth century, the practice of
drawing up a will had become commonplace, and people were
increasingly encouraged to set down their final wishes in a 'last
will and testament'. Although intended to clarify ownership, these
documents often provoked conflict amongst those who had survived
the testator. As John Addy shows in this study, first published in
1992, where there was a will, there were relatives. Drawing on a
large corpus of contemporary evidence, this survey analyses
numerous cases of the family disputes that arose from wills, to
form a picture of the attitudes and priorities possessed by those
who contested them. This was one of the first studies to use
contested-will material, and remains of great value to students of
early modern history, sociology and genealogy, as well as general
readers with an interest in local history.
This study, first published in 1989, examines the social
relationships and moral standards within the diocese of Chester
throughout the seventeenth century. Using Church Court records as
his main body of evidence, John Addy examines over 10 000 cases of
moral offences, including fornication, brawling in church,
drunkenness, adultery and concubinage, to form a picture of the
moral conduct of the Stuart laity and clergy. One of the main
methods by which the Church attempted to enforce strict moral
standards, the records arising from the ecclesiastical courts
reveal that those codes of conduct once applied to a medieval
Catholic society were increasingly being shunned by a society with
expanding capitalist attitudes. An important contribution to the
historiography of early modern English society, this title will be
of great value to undergraduate and postgraduate students with an
interest in seventeenth-century attitudes towards morality and
conduct.
By the latter half of the seventeenth century, the practice of
drawing up a will had become commonplace, and people were
increasingly encouraged to set down their final wishes in a 'last
will and testament'. Although intended to clarify ownership, these
documents often provoked conflict amongst those who had survived
the testator. As John Addy shows in this study, first published in
1992, where there was a will, there were relatives. Drawing on a
large corpus of contemporary evidence, this survey analyses
numerous cases of the family disputes that arose from wills, to
form a picture of the attitudes and priorities possessed by those
who contested them. This was one of the first studies to use
contested-will material, and remains of great value to students of
early modern history, sociology and genealogy, as well as general
readers with an interest in local history.
This study, first published in 1989, examines the social
relationships and moral standards within the diocese of Chester
throughout the seventeenth century. Using Church Court records as
his main body of evidence, John Addy examines over 10 000 cases of
moral offences, including fornication, brawling in church,
drunkenness, adultery and concubinage, to form a picture of the
moral conduct of the Stuart laity and clergy. One of the main
methods by which the Church attempted to enforce strict moral
standards, the records arising from the ecclesiastical courts
reveal that those codes of conduct once applied to a medieval
Catholic society were increasingly being shunned by a society with
expanding capitalist attitudes. An important contribution to the
historiography of early modern English society, this title will be
of great value to undergraduate and postgraduate students with an
interest in seventeenth-century attitudes towards morality and
conduct.
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