The latest issue of SDNQ (vol. 39, part 400) contains the following articles, book reviews, notes and queries:
Articles:
- Part three of Katherine Barker’s history of Sherborne’s Pack Monday Fair discusses its ‘deciding date’ and its ‘announcement’ the night before by ‘Teddy Roe’s Band’ and what this may suggest as to its early origins.
- Part five of Colin J. Brett’s comprehensive history of the Bysse family in the 16th century looks at those members of the family living in Bristol and Bridlington and elsewhere in Somerset.
- Ann Smith discusses the contents of the Reynolds Stone Archive (ref. D-RYS) held at the Dorset History Centre.
- Paul Mansfield investigates the cases of 19th century Somerset coroner, William Webber Munckton of Curry Rivel.
- Tim Connor looks at conspicuous displays of wealth by Dorset’s early Tudor elite.
- Steven Hobbs reveals gleanings from Somerset parish records discovered in the 1980s while working as an archivist at the Somerset County Record Office.
- Mark McDermott discusses a church seating plan for Trull All Saints church dated 7 March 1569. thought to be the earliest seating plan of a Somerset church. View the seating plan
Notes
- Mark Forrest reveals land in north Dorset belonging to two Wiltshire Augustinian priories at Maiden Bradley and Ivychurch and also lists landless men in the medieval court roles of Glastonbury Abbey.
Book Reviews
- I. Coleby, West Somerset Railway Norton Fitzwarren to Minehead, reviewed by Ian Tabrett.
- John Gaisford (ed.), Clothiers and Merchants in Spanish Cloth, 1627-1667: The Ashe family of Somerset, Wiltshire and London and their Account Books, reviewed by Steven Hobbs.
Notices
- Obituary for Brian Smith (1939-2023) by Adrian Webb and Raye Green
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