Author: Surtees SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Depositions from the Castle of York Relating to Offences Committed in the Northern Counties in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Surtees SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Depositions from the Castle of York, Relating to Offences Committed in the Northern Counties in the Seventeenth Century
Author: James jun RaineDepositions from the Castle of York, Relating to Offences Committed in the Northern Counties in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Great Britain. Courts of Assize and Nisi PriusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Languages of Witchcraft
Author: Stuart ClarkPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 033398529X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it and what was its place in their culture? The new essays in this collection illustrate the latest trends in witchcraft research and in cultural history in general. After three decades in which the social analysis of witchcraft accusations has dominated the subject, they turn instead to its significance and meaning as a cultural phenomenon - to the 'languages' of witchcraft, rather than its causes. As a result, witchcraft seems less startling than it once was, yet more revealing of the world in which it occurred.
P-Z. Single engravings. Manuscripts
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Tracing Your Ancestors in County Records
Author: Stuart A. RaymondPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473879094
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A detailed handbook to the English and Welsh Quarter Sessions records, their background, and how they can be used by genealogists and historians. For over 500 years, between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Justices of the Peace were the embodiment of government for most of our ancestors. The records they and other county officials kept are invaluable sources for local and family historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is the first in-depth guide to them. He shows how and why they were created, what information they contain, and how they can be accessed and used. Justices of the Peace met regularly in Quarter Sessions, judging minor criminal matters, licensing alehouses, paying pensions to maimed soldiers, overseeing roads and bridges, and running gaols and hospitals. They supervised the work of parish constables, highway surveyors, poor law overseers, and other officers. And they kept extensive records of their work, which are invaluable to researchers today. As Stuart Raymond explains, the lord lieutenant, the sheriff, the assize judges, the clerk of the peace, and the coroner, together with a variety of subordinate officials, also played important roles in county government. Most of them left records that give us detailed insights into our ancestors’ lives. The wide range of surviving county records deserve to be better known and more widely used, and Stuart Raymond’s book is a fascinating introduction to them. Praise for Tracing Your Ancestors in County Records “This is invaluable stuff: while other books may mention the records, this volume provides a useful understanding of the processes and public philosophies that led to them in the first place. There are plenty of references for further reading, too. . . . An excellent textbook exploring the mechanics of local record-keeping.” —Your Family History (UK) “This great introduction to county records will soon have you chomping at the bit to head to your nearest archive to begin exploring beyond the records available online. Well-known family and local historian (and Family Tree contributor) Stuart A. Raymond provides a concise and easy guide to the rich seam of records you can expect to find (and those you can't), going back 500 years to when Justices of the Peace were the embodiment of local government for our ancestors. There’s a wealth of information to get your teeth into.” —Family Tree (UK)
The Catholics of York Under Elizabeth
Author: John MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
County Folk-lore
Author: County Folk-lore
Author: Folklore Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description