Devon Cornwall Record Society (867 results)

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Condition: Very Good. First Ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Condition: Good. Very good condition paperback with minimal wear. Contents are clean and bright.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1st edition. Devon & Cornwall Record Society, new series, vol.42. A very nice bright, clean copy, almost as-new Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. From at least the mid-thirteenth century, the Earl of Cornwall, the wealthiest and most politically powerful lord in the county, employed a special official - called the havener - to supervise the administration of his maritime profits in the county. When the Duchy of Cornwall was created in 1337, the havener's duties were expanded, and he was made a permanent salaried official. The office of havener, for which there was no parallel in medieval Britain, allowed the duchy to manage and exploit its maritime properties and prerogatives in a particularly efficient manner. The accounts of the havener record this management, and survive in summary from the late thirteenth century, but in more detailed, separate accounts from the early fourteenth century. In focusing on the seventy years from 1287 to 1356, this edition allows readers to trace the impact on Cornwall of such major events as the Hundred Years War (begun in 1337) and the devastating plague of the Black Death in 1348-9. The annual accounts of the havener also offer a wealth of information on the development and prosperity of individual ports, including Plymouth, on fishing and the fish trade, on piracy and privateering, on shipwrecks and 'royal' fish such as whale and porpoise, and on the overseas trade in wine, tin, hides and other goods. Particularly fascinating are the glimpses we can see of the Spanish, French, Irish and English traders, shipmasters, and fishers who visited Cornish shores, and the insights we gain about the people of medieval Cornwall - merchants, fishers, mariners, wreckers, pirates and even peasants - who made their living from the sea. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD softcover, no marks in text, tight uncreased spine. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New. In the year of Charles I's execution, the Commonwealth was in financial difficulties; the survey and sale of bishops' estates raised insufficient funds and the government resorted to the sale of crown lands. In this first volume of his edition of the 1649-50 Parliamentary Survey, Norman Pounds explains the background to the survey and how it was conducted before his full transcription of the text.    &nbsp.…

Paperback. Condition: New. This second volume of Norman Pounds's edition of the 1649-50 Parliamentary Survey begins with the Isles of Scilly, which were surveyed in 1652, the delay cause by the continued resistance by Royalist forces on the islands. The book covers 17 manors in Cornwall and the Duchy's eight Devon manors, with a short editor's introduction and index for Parts I and II.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Reproducing the complete 1868 electoral papers of Arthur Pendarves Vivian (1834-1926), Liberal MP for West Cornwall, 1868-85, this volume of letters, accounts, notes and reflections provides a record of electioneering in an uncontested county division immediately after the Second Reform Act. In his introduction, Edwin Jaggard surveys West Cornwall politics between the First and Third Reform Acts, examining how the Liberals maintained their stranglehold on Cornish parliamentary seats.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Chancery Case between Nicholas Radford and Thomas Tremayne: The Exeter Depositions of 1439 This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Condition: New. In the first of two volumes on the early financial records of Exeter (the second is Local Customs Accounts of the Port of Exeter), the editors present translations of the first eleven accounts of the receivers, recording the city's income and expenditure over the period 1304 to 1353. The documents provide information on important events, visiting dignitaries and the disruption caused by plague and war. With introduction, notes and index.…

Paperback. Condition: New - Very Good. This is the first modern edition of a manuscript discovered among Exeter diocesan documents in 1960. Comprised of notes on canon law, the book was originally compiled by John Lydford (d. 1407) whose career included acting as William Wykeham's official at Winchester and as an assessor in the Blackfriars council in 1832 when Wyclif and his followers were condemned. Text in Latin, with notes and index. Slightly off-mint.…

Paperback. Condition: New. From Early Chancery Proceedings - judicial records including plaintiffs' petitions, defendants' answers and decrees, and orders of the court - Dorothy Gardiner has extracted those relating to the maritime activities of men of Devon and Cornwall and their ships. The majority of the documents are petitions seeking the assistance of the chancellor in the redress of grievances or reparations. With introduction, notes and index.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Beginning with a general survey of the construction of the cathedral, 1279-1353, which covers topics including the funding of the work, materials, sources of supply and the work force, this is the second volume of Erksine's edition and translation of the building accounts. Also included in this volume are wages lists, notes on vocabulary, a fold-out plan of the cathedral and indexes. …

Paperback. Condition: New. The eight records published here, including the Military Survey or Muster of 1522, give lists of Exeter's taxpayers and sums paid to the crown between 1489 and 1595, thereby providing detailed information on the mobility of population into and within the city during a time of economic expansion.…

Paperback. Condition: New. A show of royal strength in the shires, an eyre was the periodic visitation made to a county by royal justices to hear cases of civil litigation over landed property, felony and offences traditionally dealt with by the king's court. Henry Summerson presents a translation (from the Latin) of records of the Eyre of 1238, with detailed notes on lands and persons mentioned and a substantial introduction.…

Paperback. Condition: New - Very Good. With a substantial introduction by Robin Stanes, this volume presents probate inventories for the Devon town and parish of Uffculme, a Peculiar Parish of the Diocese of Salisbury. Providing information on life in Uffculme, farming and cloth-making, these transcriptions are of 266 probate inventories for the parish, with abstracts of the accompanying wills and administrations, plus another 322 abstracts from wills under the jurisdiction of Salisbury. Slightly off-mint.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Between 1768 and 1798, Beavis Wood (1733-1814), the Town Clerk of Tiverton, wrote 83 letters to his MP, Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby. A figure of some importance in the political and economic history of 18th-century Tiverton, Wood acted as intermediary between the town and the Ryder family, and his letters, reproduced in full in this volume, reflect local preoccupations 'in often pungent and amusing detail'.…

Paperback. Condition: New - Very Good. From the Queen's subsidy of 1602, through the Poll Tax of 1660 and the Hearth Tax of 1671 to the Poor Rate of 1699, this volume transcribes the records of taxes and rates paid in Exeter, providing economic and social historians with a picture of the comparative wealth among the 19 parishes, and a valuable directory of inhabitants (as everyone over seven was taxed) for genealogists. Slightly off-mint.…

Paperback. Condition: New. This second volume of Devon household accounts is drawn from the papers of Henry Bourchier, fifth Earl of Bath, and Rachel, Countess of Bath whose country seat was at Tawstock, North Devon. Todd Gray's introduction describes the remarkable survival of the papers in the safekeeping of the Countess's second husband before presenting three sets of documents: the Tawstock accounts 1637-39; the Earl's London household accounts 1642-47; and the Countess' general account book 1639-54.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Very Good. Very good condition paperback with minimal wear. Contents are clean and bright throughout with no markings.

8vo. Original printed card covers (softback) (near Fine). Pp. xxix + 105, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).