Book of Orders and Accounts for the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Little, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In 1769, the Welsh antiquary Thomas Pennant admired Stockton-on-Tees as a 'handsome town' with a 'remarkably fine high street'. Only a century earlier, 'it had scarce a house that was not made of clay and thatch', but now it was 'a flourishing place'. The town would be transformed again with the coming of the Stockton and Darlington railway in 1825, but for the two centuries before that, the mayors and burgesses had been running the corporation, developing the town and port from a poor hamlet, in the shadow of the bishop's manor house, to a thriving community which underwent an urban renaissance during the Georgian period. The 'Book of Orders and Accounts' records their decisions, orders, finances and dealings with the bishopric, from the reign of James I to municipal reform in 1835, providing an unusually complete record of urban affairs and recording the signatures or marks of a large number of individuals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805434566
• Artikelnr.: 72317739

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Editorial Method The Text Appendices Appendix 1.
Correspondence concerning the Book of Orders and Accounts, 1923 Appendix 2.
Commission on Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, 1835: Report on
the Borough of Stockton Appendix 3. Mayors of Stockton-on-Tees 1616 to 1835
Appendix 4. Stewards, Sergeants and Constable Appendix 5. Personal Marks
Appendix 6. Stockton Burgage Holders in 1602 Bibliography Index of Names
Subject Index