The Field Book of Walsham-le-Willows, 1577

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Sir Nicholas Bacon became the lord of the Manor of the Church House and the Manor of Walsham in the 1550s; by the end of that decade he had become the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, as assiduous in the surveying and management of his estates as he was in high office. Bacon’s painstaking records of his lands and tenants, transcribed (in original spelling) and introduced in this volume, offer a vivid and detailed description of the life and customs of a 16th-century Suffolk manor. Off-mint and musty owing to age.

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