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The Churchwardensâ Accounts of St. Botolph without Aldersgate, London, 1466-1500
Series: - Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume: 244/15
- Texts and Sources, Volume: 244/15
This volume contains transcriptions of rolls 1 to 20 (1466â1500) of the 105 (1466â1636) extant rolls of churchwardensâ accounts from the parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate, London. These financial records, along with assorted memoranda, are filled with information about the church, its operations, and the numerous people who repaired, maintained, and provisioned it. The churchwardens dealt with local problems and kept track of money they believed they were owed. These records not only present very detailed insights into a vanished world, but the resulting evidence augments and challenges existing theories about the fifteenth-century parish.
Gary G. Gibbs, Ph.D. (1990) is Professor of History at Roanoke College. Among the publications he has authored or edited are Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London: Communities and Reforms (Routledge, 2019), âTaking the Temperature of Early Modern Studies,â a special edition of The Sixteenth Century Journal 50/1 (Spring 2019), co-edited with Merry Wiesner-Hanks, and The Parish in English Life, 1400â1600, co-edited with Katherine L. French and Beat A. Kümin (Manchester University Press, 1997).
Valerie A. Hitchman, Ph.D. (2008) has authored, edited, and transcribed Omnia Bene or Ruinosa? The Condition of the Parish Churches in and around London and Westminster c1603â1677 (VDM Saarbrucken, 2009), Views from the Parish: Churchwardensâ Accounts c. 1500â1800, co-edited with Andrew Foster (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), and Norton-in-Hales, Shropshire. Churchwardensâ Accounts and Memoranda Book, 1700â1810 (Shropshire Record Society, 2019).
Valerie A. Hitchman, Ph.D. (2008) has authored, edited, and transcribed Omnia Bene or Ruinosa? The Condition of the Parish Churches in and around London and Westminster c1603â1677 (VDM Saarbrucken, 2009), Views from the Parish: Churchwardensâ Accounts c. 1500â1800, co-edited with Andrew Foster (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), and Norton-in-Hales, Shropshire. Churchwardensâ Accounts and Memoranda Book, 1700â1810 (Shropshire Record Society, 2019).
âAn elegant, highly useable volume that more than earns its place on the shelf of any historian of late medieval England.â
>br> Hannah Kirby Wood, University of Saskatchewan. In: The Medieval Review, 25.09.06.
>br> Hannah Kirby Wood, University of Saskatchewan. In: The Medieval Review, 25.09.06.
Scholars and students at the college level and above who wish to examine a full and complete set of London churchwardensâ accounts. Keywords: London, parish, medieval, churchwardens, St Botolph Aldersgate, urban, finance, fifteenth century, Yorkist, early Tudor, England.