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"This Little Commonwealth" Layton parish memorandum book 1607-c1650 & 1704-c1747 Edited by Heather Falvey & Steve Hindle Hertfordshire Record Publications, 2003, ISBN 0 9523779 9 3 |
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The parish memorandum book of the Layston clergymen, Alexander Strange and Thomas Heton, is a remarkable, indeed virtually unique, source for historians of the social, economic and cultural experience of the inhabitants of an English local community from the early seventeenth century to the mid eighteenth century. Few other documents are as revealing of the social and economic relationships between clergymen and their congregation. Historians of Hertfordshire will find much of local interest here in the intimate disclosure of detail on life in the market town of Buntingford with its contiguous parishes of Layston, Aspenden, Throcking and Wyddial. ... |
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Introduction
The Layston Parish Memorandum Book Appendices
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Last updated November 2004 |