This volume completes the edition of the two earliest manuscript Chapter Act books of Westminster Abbey, which is now the first cathedral or collegiate church to have all its Chapter Acts fully in print from the Reformation to the Civil War. It records the formal decisions of the Abbey's governing authority, many involving grants of office and leases of the Abbey's large and widely-scattered estate, principally in the midlands and the south-east, and especially in Westminster itself. A full introduction brings out the value of the documents in placing the Abbey in the tumultuous history of the church under James I and Charles I.
Details
First Published: 19 Oct 2006
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843832607
Pages: 314
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: Boydell Press
Series:
Westminster Abbey Record SeriesSubject:
Modern HistoryBIC Class: HBLL
Details updated on 07 Feb 2012
Contents
- 1 The Edition
- 2 The Acts
- 3 Text
- 4 Select Genealogies
