Forgotten Lincoln.

A history of the city from the earliest times. Great for local and family historians alike.    

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Grantham during the Interregnum

Grantham had considerable local importance as a garrison town for both sides during the first Civil War. Its situation on the Great North Road gave it additional military and strategic significance. The Hallbook contains the recorded minutes of Grantham Corporation; it reflects the fates of successive aldermen who joined the Royal forces, went as hostage to Lincoln, and suffered imprisonment in Nottingham castle, and it provides a fascinating glimpse intothe lives of the townspeople during this time of crisis. Householders were forced to pay taxes to both sides in the war, as well as shouldering their normal burden of taxation. Besides contributing to poor relief, their time and talents were also in demand for many tasks, including paving the streets, reinforcing the banks of the Witham, maintaining the town wells, doing watch and ward, paying quarteridge, and removing refuse from the streets. This latest volume of the Lincoln Record Society provides much evidence about the local impact of hostilities on the social and economic life of the town.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50356-5

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Lincolnshire Notes & Queries - April, January & July 1890

Notes and Queries was a journal, published quarterly, devoted to the antiquites, parochial records, family history, traditions, folk-lore and customs of the county. Fascinating reading for local and family historians alike.    

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The 1341 Royal Inquest in Lincolnshire

This volume is a calendar edition of the 1341 royal inquest into official misconduct and local disorder in Lincolnshire, held in the aftermath of extended periods of military campaigning, heavy taxation, purveyance and wool levies. It reflects the constant problems of official misconduct and the negative impact of the growth of royal government.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50351-0

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The Victoria History of the County of Lincoln, Volume II

The volume was published more than eighty years ago, and its reissue makes available what is virtually an antiquarian book; it is nevertheless a work of reference that in many respects has not been replaced. Half the volume is devoted to Ecclesiastical History and separate histories of the religious houses of the county, numbering no less than 125 and including Lincoln cathedral and Crowland abbey; several of those histories were written by Rose Graham andthe accounts of the seventeen friaries by A. G. Little. The second half of the volume contains chapters on Political History (by C. H. Vellacott), Social and Economic History (including a table of population summarizing the firsteleven national censuses), Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Endowed Schools, and Sport.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-712-91045-3

Price:  £60.00