The oath book : or, Red parchment book of Colchester / Tr. and transcribed by W. Gurney Benham (By permission of the Colchester town council)
1907, First Edition. Colchester : "Essex County Standard" office. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #466300
Physical description; 2 p. l., viii, 264, liv p. : incl. front ; 30 x 24 cm. Notes; "This volume and its companion, the 'Red paper book of Colchester' ... give a tolerably complete series of pictures of local government in this town from the time of Richard II. to the days of Henry VIII., with some amount of light on earlier and later centuries." Subjects; Archives England Colchester. Municipal government England Colchester Records and correspondence. Colchester (England) History Sources.
Price: €125.00