ARCHIVES: The making and registering of wills by ordinary people became widespread in East Anglia a century earlier than parts of midland and western England. It is of enormous value therefore to have one of the earliest surviving registers from an archdeaconry made available. (The volume) provides us with a window into rural society in mid-fifteenth-century East Anglia. It was a society bustling with small farmers, craftsmen involved in the cloth industry, and other artisans and traders. The wills record their concern for religion, the local community and the future welfare of wives,...
ARCHIVES: The making and registering of wills by ordinary people became widespread in East Anglia a century earlier than parts of midland and western ...
This volume is a companion to the Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474, edited in two parts under the aegis of the Suffolk Records Society. It provides comprehensive, separate indexes to both, covering people and places, and subjects.
This volume is a companion to the Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474, edited in two parts under the aegis of the Suffolk Records Society....
