This excellent book by Ronald Hutton is a great background to the events in Milton Abbas in the 16th and 17th centuries. It explains a lot of the information in our Churchwardens Books for the 17th century.
For example there are clear changes in the expenses on Communion wine during the Interregnum and Restoration. There is no income from Church ales from the start of the existing records in 1638, since these had been declining since Elizabethan times.
Is £10 per annum for UK only, Oct to Oct.
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Our new season of meetings will start Wed 6 Oct 2021, then the first Wednesday of every month until Jun 2022.
Our meeting 6 Oct at 19:30 GMT will be our AGM followed by Chris Fookes' 'Milton Abbas Oddities'.
We will be meeting in the Reading Rooms, Milton Abbas and also via ZOOM.
Our meeting 3 Nov 2021 19:30 GMT will be 'Our Records and Where to find them', by Bryan Phillip
Are you interested in exploring old documents?
You can help us by transcribing documents and audio recordings. We already have transcribers around the world who are working on Churchwardens Books and Overseers of the Poor Books. The pages are shared using Google docs, although MyAirBridge, One Drive or Dropbox is also possible.
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Although we are a local history group, we are carrying out family and social history research to see how the ordinary people lived, how they were treated, their economic fortunes, religious beliefs, health, demographics, etc. We are particularly interested in the mobility of families in the 18th century.
