Parish Government in a Leicestershire Village. The Buckminster Town Book 1665-1767 and Constable’s Book 1753-1813

Alan Fox (ed) 2015

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Many parishes in early modern England were run by local inhabitants elected by the vestry to the influential and often challenging offices of churchwarden overseer of the poor, constable, and surveyor of the highways. Officers served for a year and at the end of the term appeared before the vestry to present their accounts. In many cases these documents were later lost or destroyed, but at Buckminster in north-east Leicestershire a collection of church books and registers have been preserved. In this volume the routines of parish government are revealed in transcriptions of Buckminster's Town Book, covering the years 1665-1767, and Constable's Book of 1755-1813

Hardback

228 pages

ISBN 978-0-9542388-4-1