The Louth St James Churchwardens’ Accounts: 1527-1570

Tudor Paperwork: accounts revealing the trials and tribulations of church officials during the Reformation period. The Louth churchwarden's accounts are some of the county's most comprehensive surviving parish records. These continue in an almost unbroken sequence from the beginning of the sixteenth century, opening a panorama on the financial undertakings of a large and relatively prosperous parish church. The first published transcription, edited by Reginald Dudding, Rector of Saleby (1859-193