Pub Date : 2022-07-15DOI: 10.1080/0078172x.2022.2099780
A. Pollard
sises the ways in which communities cemented newborn infants into communal knowledge and memory situating them geographically and through connections to the parents, in both legitimate and illegitimate births. Giving Birth draws together personal literature, folklore collections, and court records to masterfully articulate that childbirth opens a window onto the everyday family and community interactions, obligations, and bonds of later eighteenthcentury society. The book significantly nuances and updates the existing historiography on the topic of birthing rituals in the early modern era. Fox is to be commended on producing a book that is engaging and accessible, one that will appeal to students whilst becoming a cornerstone of research on the social history of reproduction.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.1080/0078172X.2022.2067514
Peter D. Wright
younger brother Michael and had married a distant Blackett cousin. It was Wilkinson who took over when William II died suddenly in 1705 leaving only a 15-year-old to inherit the baronetcy but not, initially at least, the businesses. Finch sees this as an early example of the sort of changeover from personal to corporate management that characterised large firms at a later date. That may be so, but the fact remains that William Blackett III was hardly equipped to take on much responsibility for the family businesses, even though his name gave him what Finch calls the ‘brand value’ to get him elected a Newcastle MP despite suspicions of Jacobite sympathies. The young Blackett’s personality was in marked contrast to that of his forebears. He was a profligate, frivolous, self-indulgent womaniser who fathered two illegitimate daughters and, although ultimately married to an heiress, no son, which meant that the best that he could do to save the family name was to leave it (literally) at his early death in 1728 to his young nephew Walter Calverley on condition that he marry his daughter and take the name of Blackett. There was a temporary glitch when the young lady proved reluctant but the managers who had carried on the businesses during William III’s disastrous tenure managed this bit of business too and the brand name was preserved. There had been an earlier ’glitch’ when Blackett, true to form, seduced the daughter of John Wilkinson, his manager. Wilkinson resigned but the managerial structure survived. It is at this point that the author homes in on another element in his account of the Blackett family’s survival: the growing relative economic status of land as a capital asset both in terms of rental value and as security for loans and mortgages. The acquisition of landed estates and property by the Blacketts is a recurrent theme which only comes to the fore during the depression in mineral prices and the pressure on the family finances of the later years. This is the century of agricultural improvement, enclosure and enhanced rental values. Finch contends that good management and clever manipulation of this landed capital enabled the family business to survive its disastrous third generation and a slump in both the coal trade and the lead market. The book is impeccably researched and if some of the conclusions reached are a touch speculative it has opened up new lines of enquiry which will no doubt be pursued by others in the future
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Pub Date : 2022-05-06DOI: 10.1080/0078172x.2022.2067512
R. Beadle
Four little-known account rolls now preserved (in part or as a whole) in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, two dating from the mid-fifteenth century and two from the mid-sixteenth, originally formed part of the civic archives at York. They consist of sets of Chamberlains’ and Bridgemasters’ accounts dated 1446–47, and of similar sets pertaining to the same bodies, the Chamberlains’ (a fragment only) datable to 1533–34, and the Bridgemasters’ dated 1541–42. All four formed part of the long series of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century rolls still among the early muniments of the city of York, but were unknown to R.B. Dobson and P.M. Stell, who in recent times edited, respectively, the Chamberlains’ and Bridgemasters’ rolls down to 1500. They were also overlooked by A.F. Johnston and M. Rogerson, who made numerous extracts relating to drama and cognate activities from the rolls in York for the volume devoted to the city in the series Records of Early English Drama. The article describes in brief the content of and physical condition of the Bodleian rolls, identifying two of the scribes involved in their compilation, and extracts from the Chamberlains’ accounts for 1533–34, one entry relating to the Corpus Christi play and two to the city waits.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-28DOI: 10.1080/0078172x.2022.2067515
E. Royle
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Pub Date : 2022-04-17DOI: 10.1080/0078172x.2022.2060775
Laura Flannigan
The Council of the North was regularly reinstituted under the early Tudor kings to keep the peace in a region that they saw as unsettled and susceptible to sedition. Yet this was not simply an imposition of governmental supervision from on high. The Council also served to meet popular demand for more accessible royal justice in the northern counties. Analysis of this provincial judicial activity and its potential benefits are limited by the lack of any central surviving archive for the Council today. This short article examines a series of judgments that it made between 1540 and 1543 in a suit between two Yorkshiremen, newly discovered among miscellaneous and uncatalogued legal materials at The National Archives. It provides a transcription of four orders made in this case, seemingly copied out of original order books, and contextualises them within the re-development of the Council under the Bishop of Llandaff in the late 1530s.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-11DOI: 10.1080/0078172x.2022.2056563
Stephen Radley
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