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Edition, with full explanatory apparatus, of wills and inventories
from north-east England. This volume contains full transcripts of
all the wills and probate inventories (and one rare record, an
exceptionally detailed probate account) which survive from
Sunderland and its environs (the parishes of Bishopwearmouth and
Monkwearmouth, Co. Durham) in the twenty-five years between 1651
and 1675. It draws together 119 files of documents preserved in The
National Archives, the special collections of Durham University
Library (which holds the majorityof the records presented here),
the Borthwick Institute at the University of York and Durham
Cathedral Library. Together, they paint a vivid picture of
Sunderland at a period of rapid change, as it developed as an
industrial and trading port. Testators include shipowners,
shipwrights, anchor smiths, mariners, coal fitters, and merchants
and the records include some very detailed inventories, notably one
of a woolen draper and clothier. The documents are supported by an
introduction which places them in their context, outlines local
aspects of the turbulent controversies of the time, and examines
changes in the local economy and in houses and household
furnishing. The volume also includes a glossary explaining words
not in current use, and indexes of names and subjects.
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