Sexton Papers, Hoo Papers and Accounts of the Chapelry of Sandiacre. (Described at...

Sexton Papers, Hoo Papers and Accounts of the Chapelry of Sandiacre. (Described at item level).

Folios 1-130: The Sexton Papers are the papers of Thomas Sexton, merchant of London. They range in date from 1555 to 1561 and consist for the most part of letters to Thomas Sexton from his agents abroad, of whom the most prolific are Blaise Freman and his brother, John, writing from Danzig. There is also correspondence from Cadiz (George Lawson) and Bilbao (Robert Pope). The correspondence from Danzig is the most detailed, describing trade in a wide range of goods including cables, hawsers, yarns, cloth, playing cards, feathers, coneyskins, corn, pitch, soap-ashes, flax, eels, sturgeon, poldavis (sailcloth), etc. There is also information on the affairs of the Hanse in Germany and England.

Folios 131-144: The Hoo Papers are the papers of Richard Hoo of Scarning, Norfolk, 1553 to 1559. Richard Hoo was the son of Thomas Hoo of Scarning, who died in 1516. Richard died in around 1569. The papers consist mainly of correspondence, much of which is between Richard Hoo and his sons, John, William and Thomas. Some papers concern a dispute with members of the Deane family. Some of the papers are in Latin.

Folios 145-194: The Accounts of the Chapelry of Sandiacre are the accounts of the parson of the parochial chapelry of Sandiacre, Derbyshire, for fees, offerings and tithes, 1554 to 1557. William Woode was the parish priest of Sandiacre in 1549 and Thomas Charleton was likewise in August 1557. Folios 176-178 contain full lists of parishioners and their children, 1547 to 1548.

Topics

Trade and commerce

Tithes

Europe and Russia

Children

Personal and family papers