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The Churchwardens’ Accounts of St. Botolph without Aldersgate, London, 1466–1500
Series: - Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume: 244/15
- Texts and Sources, Volume: 244/15
This volume contains transcriptions of rolls 1 to 20 (1466–1500) of the 105 (1466–1636) extant rolls of churchwardens’ accounts from the parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate, London. These financial records, along with assorted memoranda, are filled with information about the church, its operations, and the numerous people who repaired, maintained, and provisioned it. The churchwardens dealt with local problems and kept track of money they believed they were owed. These records not only present very detailed insights into a vanished world, but the resulting evidence augments and challenges existing theories about the fifteenth-century parish.
Gary G. Gibbs, Ph.D. (1990) is Professor of History at Roanoke College. Among the publications he has authored or edited are Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London: Communities and Reforms (Routledge, 2019), ‘Taking the Temperature of Early Modern Studies,’ a special edition of The Sixteenth Century Journal 50/1 (Spring 2019), co-edited with Merry Wiesner-Hanks, and The Parish in English Life, 1400–1600, co-edited with Katherine L. French and Beat A. Kümin (Manchester University Press, 1997).
Valerie A. Hitchman, Ph.D. (2008) has authored, edited, and transcribed Omnia Bene or Ruinosa? The Condition of the Parish Churches in and around London and Westminster c1603–1677 (VDM Saarbrucken, 2009), Views from the Parish: Churchwardens’ Accounts c. 1500–1800, co-edited with Andrew Foster (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), and Norton-in-Hales, Shropshire. Churchwardens’ Accounts and Memoranda Book, 1700–1810 (Shropshire Record Society, 2019).
Valerie A. Hitchman, Ph.D. (2008) has authored, edited, and transcribed Omnia Bene or Ruinosa? The Condition of the Parish Churches in and around London and Westminster c1603–1677 (VDM Saarbrucken, 2009), Views from the Parish: Churchwardens’ Accounts c. 1500–1800, co-edited with Andrew Foster (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), and Norton-in-Hales, Shropshire. Churchwardens’ Accounts and Memoranda Book, 1700–1810 (Shropshire Record Society, 2019).
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Maps
Introduction
Roll 1: 1466–1467
Roll 2: 1468–1472
Roll 3: 1479/80–1481/82
Roll 4: 1481/82–1482/83
Roll 5: 1482/83–1483/84
Roll 6: 1483/84–1484/85
Roll 7: 1484/85–1485/86
Roll 8: 1485/86–1486/87
Roll 9: 1486/87–1487/88
Roll 10: 1488/89–1489/90
Roll 11: 1489/90–1490/91
Roll 12: 1490/91–1491/92
Roll 13: 1491/92–1492/93
Roll 14: 1492/93–1493/94
Roll 15: 1493/94–1494/95
Roll 16: 1494/95–1495/96
Roll 17: 1496/97–1497/98
Roll 18: 1497/98–1498/99
Roll 19: 1498/99–1499/1500
Roll 20: 1499–1500
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Maps
Introduction
Roll 1: 1466–1467
Roll 2: 1468–1472
Roll 3: 1479/80–1481/82
Roll 4: 1481/82–1482/83
Roll 5: 1482/83–1483/84
Roll 6: 1483/84–1484/85
Roll 7: 1484/85–1485/86
Roll 8: 1485/86–1486/87
Roll 9: 1486/87–1487/88
Roll 10: 1488/89–1489/90
Roll 11: 1489/90–1490/91
Roll 12: 1490/91–1491/92
Roll 13: 1491/92–1492/93
Roll 14: 1492/93–1493/94
Roll 15: 1493/94–1494/95
Roll 16: 1494/95–1495/96
Roll 17: 1496/97–1497/98
Roll 18: 1497/98–1498/99
Roll 19: 1498/99–1499/1500
Roll 20: 1499–1500
Index
Scholars and students at the college level and above who wish to examine a full and complete set of London churchwardens’ accounts. Keywords: London, parish, medieval, churchwardens, St Botolph Aldersgate, urban, finance, fifteenth century, Yorkist, early Tudor, England.