The Social History of the People of the Southern Counties of England in Past Centuries: Illustrated in Regard to Their Habits, Municipal Bye-laws, Civil Progress, Etc

Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856 - 572 páginas

An Account of Presents made to Great Men and entertaining	1

Vails to Servants	32

The early Visits of Stageplayers	35

Early Shipping and Maritime Affairs	45

32	51

The State of our Southwestern Coasts when infested with	67

The arming of Towns	100

Wounded Veterans pensioned by the Counties	126

Introduction of Luxuries Chimneys Pewter c	324

A Word or two about Spoons Knives and Forks used at this	341

Security against Fire Chimneys Mantels c	358

The Clothing Trade of the West of England a kind of Clo	364

Smuggling or Contraband Trade	370

The Lace Trade its Origin early Introduction into West Dorset	376

A Postscript about Silkthrowing	383

Inability to read or write	390

Neighbouring Counties are restricted in their Intercourse by	146

Orders for the better Government of the Gaol and Mainprize	171

Rewards offered to the Prosecutors of Offenders	177

The Shoemakers faulty in respect of their Leather	185

The Profit made by coining Corporation and Tradesmens	203

Purchasing Corn of great Men Famine Prices	210

Music in the Service of our Churches soon after the Reformation	231

The Sabbath Day Punishments for NonObservance of	238

Collection of Money made for Geneva	250

Medical Practice	260

Sanitary Measures the Neglect and Observance of	276

The Great Plague of the Reign of Edward III	293

Early Civil Engineering particularly in respect of Marine Con	302

The bringing in of a Supply of Water into Towns the Pitching	309

The Paucity of many Articles of great Convenience in daily	316

No mention made of Painting Chained Books	398

Wearing Arms	408

Sumptuary Laws of Dress and Expenditure	414

Cockfighting and Cocksquailing	421

Drinking when transacting Business	427

The stopping wellknown Footpaths	461

The Payment of the Burgesses of Parliament formerly their	468

Early Travelling in the Southwest of England the Manner	480

The Post and the Cost of Messengers to carry Letters before	506

Witchcraft and Superstitions Past and Present	522

The Ordeal by touching a Corpse	533

The Decay of old Mercantile Coast Towns and their Revival	540

Miscellaneous Reminiscences	559

540	571

Título	The Social History of the People of the Southern Counties of England in Past Centuries: Illustrated in Regard to Their Habits, Municipal Bye-laws, Civil Progress, Etc
Autor	George Roberts
Editor	Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856
Procedencia del original	Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York
Digitalizado	11 Oct. 2007
Largo	572 páginas

Exportar cita	BiBTeX EndNote RefMan