The Brewers' Book, Part 2, 1429-40

An Edition of the Minute Book of William Porlond, Clerk of the Brewers' Company
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-900952-64-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 61, 392 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

Reihe: London Record Society

This book presents the second part of William Porlond's Brewers' Book, 1429-40. It provides a fascinating glimpse of this craft and fraternity, and the gaining of the company's Royal charter in 1438.

This is the second part of William Porlond's Brewers' Book, for the years 1429-40, until the clerk's death. After a gap, his records resumed, listing income, expenditure, entries to the freedom of the craft, to the fraternity and matters concerning the Brewers of London. Many payments were recorded in pursuit of the Brewers' Royal charter, which King Henry VI granted in 1438. Costs for making the commonalty seal were also recorded. At this time of change, when beer, rather than ale, was being made and sold in London, the clerk questioned the virtue of beer. He recorded the annual feasts, some important guests, and the purchase and distribution of livery cloth. The clerk gave insight into national events, with lists of the Brewers' contributions towards waging soldiers in Calais. Inventories of the goods of three Brewers' almsmen give glimpses of their lives. Porlond's records, kept mostly in English in this part of the book, illustrate the developing role of the company clerk.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Metcalfe, Caroline Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Dedication - thanks for grants: The Brewers' Company and the Yorkist History Trust
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction (with Editorial Method at the end, please)
Folios 157-328
Select Glossary
Appendices
I List of Masters of the Craft and Fraternity of Brewers, 1418-40
II List of Named Properties in William Porlond's Brewers' Book, Part II
Index of People and Places

Über Autor(innen)

Metcalfe, Caroline Anne
Caroline Metcalfe read History at the University of London, in the 1970s and returned to study for her Masters in Medieval Studies at Royal Holloway College, 2010- 2012. She has worked on The Brewers' Book extensively and published 2 articles in the Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, about William Porlond himself and about the quarrel between Richard Whittington and the Brewers, 1419-22.