Plymouth Building Accounts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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Author(s) Welch, Edwin (ed)
Publication type Monograph
Year published 1967
Pages 117pp; illus
Publisher Devon & Cornwall Record Society
Place Published Torquay

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Document transcriptions, etc

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Largely comprises transcriptions of particularly detailed building accounts of three public buildings at Plymouth, viz: Guildhall, 1564-5; Guildhall rebuilding with covered market, 1606-7; orphanage known as Orphans; Aid, 1614-20. In particular provide detail re wages and sources of building materials. Introduced by chapters on building methods and on builders and their wages