A Guide to Chancery Equity Records and Proceedings, 1600-1800

A Guide to Chancery Equity Records and Proceedings, 1600-1800
Author: Henry Horwitz
Publisher: Public Record Office Publications
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

This is a revised edition of a guide to the exploration of the voluminous records of Chancery equity proceedings in the Public Record Office. It takes account of the results of the transfer of these records to Kew, to assure the guide's continuing availability to researchers. Additions include an appendix analyzing the contents of the Bernau Index and providing guidelines for its use, a review of the location and organization of the main finding aids to Chancery equity records at Kew, and a description of newly-completed listings of Chancery classes. The text also incorporates the results of ongoing research on Chancery (and Exchequer) equity proceedings.

Tracing Your Ancestors Through the Equity Courts

Tracing Your Ancestors Through the Equity Courts
Author: Susan T. Moore
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2017-10-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 147389168X

The records of the Courts of Equity, which dealt with cases of fairness rather than law, are among the most detailed, extensive and revealing of all the legal documents historians can consult, yet they are often neglected. Susan Moore's expert introduction to them opens up this fascinating source to researchers who may not be familiar with them and dont know how to take advantage of them. As she traces the purpose, history and organization of the Courts of Equity from around 1500 to 1876, she demonstrates how varied their role was and how valuable their archives are for us today. She covers the Courts of Chancery, Exchequer, Star Chamber, Requests, Palatinates and Duchy of Lancaster in clear detail. Her work shows researchers why their records are worth searching, how to search them and how many jewels of information can be found in them. This introduction will be appreciated by local, social and family historians who are coming to these records for the first time and by those who already know of the records but have found them daunting.

Huguenot Prophecy and Clandestine Worship in the Eighteenth Century

Huguenot Prophecy and Clandestine Worship in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Georgia Cosmos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351929925

Following Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, French protestants faced the stark choice of abandoning their religion, or defying the law. Many fled abroad, whilst others continued to meet clandestinely for worship and to organise resistance to government policy, culminating in the bloody Camisard rebellion of 1702-10. During this period of conflict and repression, a distinct culture of prophecy and divine inspiration grew up, which was to become a defining characteristic of the dispersed protestant communities in southern France. Drawing on a wide range of printed and manuscript material, this study, examines the nature of Huguenot prophesying in the Cévennes during the early years of the eighteenth century. As well as looking at events in France, the book also explores the reactions of the Huguenot community of London, which became caught up in the prophesying controversy with the publication in 1707 of Le Théatre sacré des Cévennes. This book, which recounted the stories of exiles who had witnessed prophesying and miraculous events in the Cévennes, not only provided a first hand account of an outlawed religion, but became the centre of a heated debate in London concerning 'false-prophets'. By exploring French protestantism through voluntary testimonies given by Huguenot exiles in London, this study not only offers a rare glimpse of a forbidden religion, but also shows how a long-established immigrant church in London confronted the problems posed by recent arrivals infused with a radical sense of mystic purpose and divine revelation.

Tracking Down Your Ancestors

Tracking Down Your Ancestors
Author: Harry Alder
Publisher: How To Books Ltd
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2002
Genre: Genealogy
ISBN: 9781857038286

Researching your family history can be an absorbing hobby, or a one-off project that your whole family will value and build on. This book is packed with ideas about the different aspects of genealogy and the main free or low cost resources available to help you in your quest. CONTENTS: Getting started - online family searching - harnessing internet sources - tearless transcribing - organised support - vital public records - interpreting old records - getting to know your ancestors About the author Dr Harry Alder is a prolific writer and long-time researcher. Here he passes on his passion for genealogy, his first-hand experience, lots of practical tips and key websites to support your research.

Women in Eighteenth Century Europe

Women in Eighteenth Century Europe
Author: Margaret Hunt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2014-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317883888

Was the century of Voltaire also the century of women? In the eighteenth century changes in the nature of work, family life, sexuality, education, law, religion, politics and warfare radically altered the lives of women. Some of these developments caused immense confusion and suffering; others greatly expanded women’s opportunities and worldview – long before the various women’s suffrage movements were more than a glimmer on the horizon. This study pays attention to queens as well as commoners; respectable working women as well as prostitutes; women physicists and mathematicians as well as musicians and actresses; feminists as well as their critics. The result is a rich and morally complex tale of conflict and tragedy, but also of achievement. The book deals with many regions and topics often under-represented in general surveys of European women, including coverage of the Balkans and both European Turkey and Anatolia, of Eastern Europe, of European colonial expansion (particularly the slave trade) and of Muslim, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish women's history. Bringing all of Europe into the narrative of early modern women's history challenges many received assumptions about Europe and women in past times, and provides essential background for dealing with issues of diversity in the Europe of today.

Humanities

Humanities
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1996
Genre: Humanities
ISBN:

Major-General Hezekiah Haynes and the Failure of Oliver Cromwell’s Godly Revolution, 1594–1704

Major-General Hezekiah Haynes and the Failure of Oliver Cromwell’s Godly Revolution, 1594–1704
Author: David Farr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2020-05-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000078833

Hezekiah Haynes was shaped by the Puritanism of his father’s network and experienced emigration to New England as part of a community removing themselves from Charles I’s Laudianism. Returning to fight in the British Civil Wars, Haynes rose to become Cromwell’s ruler of the east of England, tasked with bringing about a godly revolution, and in rising to prominence he became the centre of his own developing political and religious network, which included a kin link to Cromwell himself. As one of Cromwell’s Major-Generals Haynes was tasked with security and a reformation of manners, but he was hampered by the limits of the early modern state and Cromwell’s own contradictory political and religious ideas. The Restoration saw Haynes imprisoned in the Tower before emerging to return to the community in which he had been raised, and continuing the links with some of those he had worked with for Cromwell and the kin he had left behind in New England in dealing with the norms of early modern life. This book will appeal to specialists in the area and students taking courses on early modern English and American history, as well as those with a more general interest in the period.

1995

1995
Author: Massimo Mastrogregori
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2014-02-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110967006

Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.