The inventories; Lincoln City 1661-1714; occupations and professions; selection and organization of the printed inventories; farmers, gardeners, millers, bakers, confectioners, maltsters, brewers, joiners, timber merchants, fishermen; butchers, tanners, glovers, cordwainers, sellers of horse and animal gear, minor leather workers; wool merchants, weavers, dyers, tailors, bodice makers, upholsterers, woollen drapers, linen drapers, mercers; brick and tile makers, blacksmiths, whitesmiths, pewterers, plumbers, glaziers, goldsmiths; the professions and their ancilliaries, clergy, Stewards of the Choristers, musicians, physicians, surgeons, barbers; services - inn, alehouse and coffee house keepers, chapmen and watermen, booksellers and miscellaneous; houses and their furnishings; appraisers and their valuations. Appendix: The population of Lincoln 1642-1721.
`very few historians [had] begun to recognize the value of
inventories in town studies-a pioneer-This is a splendid volume,
not only for the light which it sheds on Lincoln life, but the
wider implications for late seventeenth century urbansociety.
*LINCS HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY*
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