Sherborne Almshouse Register

Description

(ed Ann Clark) The Almshouse Register is a rare document.  In the 1590s the governing body, the brethren of the almshouse, began to copy their most important records into this one volume.

This transcription is in modern English for accessibility.  It contains records from the 1580s to 1866, including brethren and admission of almspeople.

156 pages.  Hardback.