The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society volume XX

The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, vol. 20 ‘Jacobean household inventories,’ by F. G. Emmison. [The editor claims that this is the first collection of inventories to be published with analytical notes. A 50-page introduction and analysis of the inventories under the headings houses, furniture, domestic life, farmyard and valuations is followed by transcriptions of all 166 inventories for the period 1617 to 1619/20. These are full text transcriptions with the original