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HMSO, London [Published Date: 1995]. Soft cover, 124 pp. Second Impression, 1995.
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In very good condition. Glossy illustrated paper covers have light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations throughout. [From back cover] Tales of our Ancestors from the London Church Courts. Soured relationships, domestic strife, neighbours' quarrels, parents and step-parents at war with their children ... this is the stuff of modern soap opera. But the stories here are true stories, about real people, based on the extraordinarily rich records of the London Church courts at Doctor's Commons. These 'sundry immense books of evidence', as Dickens described them, provide a unique archive for the historian. Jane Cox, a well-known genealogist and former Principal Assistant Keeper at the Public Record Office combines sympathy, imagination and scholarship in her reconstruction of the courts and their tales. Her heroes and heroines come from all walks of life, and span the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Here are the authentic voices of our ancestors as they went about their daily lives: loving, hating, gossiping and scheming in the kitchens, bedchambers and narrow cobbled streets of old London.