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Agriculture --- History. --- Cressing Temple (England) --- Essex (England)
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Megalithic monuments --- Stonehenge (England) --- Wiltshire (England) --- Antiquities.
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Over the last twenty years more and more historians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have turned their eyes away from the records of central administration, towards local archives, and the lives of the poor. What they have found is a wealth of sources some of which chronicle the lives, and many of which record the words, of working people. This book will bring together some of the best work based on these sources.
Poor - England - History --- Poverty - England - History --- England - Social conditions --- Poor --- Poverty --- England --- History. --- History
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These abstracts of 298 wills are based on transcriptions made by John and Isobel Thompson from the probate records of the Court of the Archdeacon of Bedford, held at Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service as ABP/R 2 and 3.
The wills are mainly of the ordinary people of Bedfordshire villages and towns and a few local clergy.
As well as containing details of testators' families, possessions, some property and bequests to the church, there are glimpses into people's minds: 'beyng seke in bodie dredyng the parell of death to fall unto me'; and a request for burial in the parish church 'afore the sowth doore behynd the piller'.
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