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When death do us part : understanding and interpreting the probate records of early modern England / edited by Tom Arkell, Nesta Evans and Nigel Goose.
- Title
- When death do us part : understanding and interpreting the probate records of early modern England / edited by Tom Arkell, Nesta Evans and Nigel Goose.
- Publication
- Oxford : Leopard's Head Press, 2000.
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- Description
- xii, 422 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Local history
- Local history.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The probate process / Tom Arkell -- Probate 1500-1800: a system in transition / Jeff and Nancy Cox -- Wills as an historical source / Nigel Goose and Nesta Evans -- Interpreting probate inventories / Tom Arkell -- Using probate accounts / Amy Erickson -- Prices from probate inventories / Mark Overton -- Religious preambles and the scribes of villagers' wills in Cambridgeshire, 1570-1700 / Margaret Spufford -- Attitudes to will-making in early modern England / Christopher Marsh -- Occupations and status of male testators in Cambridgeshire, 1551-1750 / Nesta Evans -- Fertility and mortality in pre-industrial English towns from probate and parish register evidence / Nigel Goose -- Long-term rural credit in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century England: the evidence of probate accounts / Peter Spufford -- Understanding probate accounts and their generation in the post-restoration Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry to 1700 / Ann Tarver -- The language of probate inventories / Edmund Weiner -- The wooden horse in the cellar: words and contexts in Shropshire probate inventories / Barrie Trinder -- Merchants and retailers in seventeenth-century Cornwall / Christine North -- Widows of the 'middling sort' and their assets in two seventeenth-century towns / Mary Hodges -- Beyond the probate line: probate evidence and related sources in early modern Yorkshire / Bernard Jennings.
- ISBN
- 0904920429
- OCLC
- 46476776
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library