The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Records of Social and Economic History
ISBN-10
0197260292
ISBN-13
9780197260296
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 29th, 1984
Print length
422 Pages
Weight
792 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 16.40 x 2.90 cms
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This volume gives details of a wide range of day-to-day transactions mainly during the period 1617 to 1645. The editor adds greatly to our knowledge of Henry Best, his family, and estate in a substantial introduction, and much ancillary documentary evidence is provided in a series of appendices.
In the early 1640s Henry Best, a gentleman farmer of Elmswell in the East Riding of Yorkshire, composed an account of his farming practices. The resulting Farming Book provides a unique account of seventeenth-century farming, of the marketing of agricultural produce, and of rural customs. It is here published in a new transcription by Donald Woodward. In addition, a complete transcript of Henry Best''s Memorandum Book is published for the first time; this volume gives details of a wide range of day-to-day transactions mainly during the period 1617 to 1645. The editor adds greatly to our knowledge of Henry Best, his family and estate in a substantial introduction, and much ancillary documentary evidence is provided in a series of appendices. The volume is rounded off by an extensive new glossary prepared by Peter McClure.
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