St Albans, 1650-1700: A Thoroughfare Town and Its People

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J. T. Smith, John Thomas Smith, M. A. North
Univ of Hertfordshire Press, 2003 - Architecture - 264 pages
This study of St Albans covers the period from the Commonwealth to the accession of Anne which embraces religious and political changes of great interest in the life of a town of strongly dissenting opinion.
 

Contents

THE TOWN
1
SOCIAL HISTORY IN ARCHITECTURE
17
THE BOROUGH
44
THE PARISH AND THE POOR
74
The vestry the churchwardens presentment on religious grounds upkeep
94
POPULATION FAMILY RECONSTITUTION
112
THOROUGHFARE TOWN
137
Landed and armigerous gentry postRestoration gentry civic and professional
175
TEN FAMILIES
197
John Gape d 1703
202
DAILY LIFE
217
Children education domestic life and work where did widows and spinsters
228
LIST OF MAYORS 16501700
241
Index
249
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