Author: Southampton Record Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-08

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781333185534

Excerpt from Letters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, From the Archives of Southampton The eight packets XI-1 to XI - 8 contain a great variety of documents. Apart from a large number of miscellaneous accounts, mainly belonging to the seventeenth century, they include fragments of Port Books of about 1580-90 (in Nos. 1 fragments of Examinations and Depositions, chiefly of about 1690 (in Nos. 1, 2, 5 and twenty-three Stockwell letters (in Nos. 4, 5 and a bundle of Oliver Lambert letters - early seventeenth century - (in no. A few miscellaneous letters of 1605-50 (in Nos. 1 some letters and papers of about 1750 (in No. And finally, eight legal documents in Latin (in Nos. 1 One of these, from the reign of Edward III, is abstracted on p. 63 of the Report - last paragraph but two; another appears as No. 4 of the present collection; the rest belong to the reign of James I. Though the letters in this volume range over as much as two centuries, a very large proportion of them, 108 out of 145, belong to one of four quite short periods, 1458-9, 1470-2, 1549-50 and 1587-90. It would seem likely that this points to the special care of certain Mayors or Town Clerks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.