The accounts of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, Luton 1526/7 - 1546/7
"Religious guilds or fraternities proliferated throughout England until their dissolution in the late 1540s, yet remarkably few of their records have survived. Amongst the survivals are the last twenty-one years of the accounts of the Luton Guild of the Holy Trinity, hitherto unpublished in ful...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
2012
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The publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society (91)
Year: 2012 |
| Series/Journal: | The publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
91 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Guild of the Holy Trinity
/ Bookkeeping
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| Further subjects: | B
Guild of the Holy Trinity (Luton, England)
Finance
B Spring B Church finance |
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Table of Contents |
| Summary: | "Religious guilds or fraternities proliferated throughout England until their dissolution in the late 1540s, yet remarkably few of their records have survived. Amongst the survivals are the last twenty-one years of the accounts of the Luton Guild of the Holy Trinity, hitherto unpublished in full. The accounts record several hundred transactions each year, including rents for the guild's properties, and expenditure on wages to priests and clerks and dirges sung for deceased members of the guild. Purchases of food and hiring of cooks, kitchen helpers, utensils and entertainment show what extraordinarily lavish provision was made for the annual feast. The quantity of building materials which was purchased for the guild's properties suggests not only repairs but also modernisation and may be sufficient to attempt to reconstruct some of the houses. The majority of 'brothers and systers' of the guild were drawn from a radius of about twenty-five miles of Luton and included the towns and villages in neighbouring Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. A small, but noticeable, group were from London, Canterbury, Boston and Kendal. The guild was prosperous, well-connected and active, and its accounts provide an insight into daily life in mid-sixteenth-century south Bedfordshire and the surrounding area. The book contains a complete transcription of the accounts and in introduction presenting an overview of the guild's activities. It is fully indexed"--Publisher's description, p. [2] of dust jacket |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 0851550789 |