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This edition prints for the first time over 120 letters from, to or about Lady Anne Clifford (1590-1676) together with the full text of the memoir by her secretary George Sedgewick (1618-85).Lady Anne Clifford (1590-1676) is well known - and often admired - as a formidable aristocratic lady who, by defiance and force of character, managed to recover her ancestral family estates after her father, the third earl of Cumberland, had bequeathed them to his brother and disinherited her. Lady Anne married twice, but in her widowhood she lived at her houses at Skipton and Appleby, never straying south in the last quarter century of her life.In this edition we print - in most cases for the first time - over 120 letters by Lady Anne, to Lady Anne, or about Lady Anne to offer a fuller picture of her as the manager of her estates and defender of her interests. We add to this the memoir - previously unpublished in full - of her secretary George Sedgewick (1618-85). He offers an eyewitness account of Lady Anne, but his memoir is also the record of a Westmorland boy from a poor background who became the trusted retainer of the earls of Pembroke and then, in her widowhood, of Lady Anne herself.

An invaluable reference work, providing definitions for a plethora of words old and new from Yorkshire's dialect.This volume offers an unparalleled collection of words and phrases gleaned from Yorkshire's archives. The language it contains tells the story of Yorkshire in the words of the people who experienced it, providing a powerful new look at the county's intangible heritage and what it means to be from Yorkshire. The Dictionary uses a broad range of sources to widen the English lexicon, with new vocabulary for (among others) by-names and place-names; for agricultural and animal terms; and for specialist craft and industries. As well as new words such as fulture (a mixture of manure and bedding), working tree (a stand for hides to be worked upon), stonery (a place where stones could be quarried), and wand hagger (part of a wood set out for producing wands, or saplings, for baskets, hurdles, etc.), there are earlier references to established words that appear in the Oxford English Dictionary, such as necessary-house (privy, here from 1414 compared to 1609), orange (as a colour, here from 1504 compared to 1600) and oliver (a tilt hammer, used by early iron-workers, here from 1350, compared to 1846). The Dictionary also fills in in gaps in our understanding of the development of regional language, from "borrowings" from the Baltic and Low Countries to its decline from the Tudor period on.This is the first time such a comprehensive glossary of regional words has been published. Its wide-ranging scope, underpinned with excellent scholarship, means this volume will be of interest not just to historians of Yorkshire, but to local historians across the country, as well as linguists and place-name and surname researchers.

St Leonard's Hospital at York, originally called St Peter's, was once one of York's most powerful institutions. Founded in the late eleventh century, it remained a significant component of city life for four and a half centuries, until it fell with the monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII. It was for many years the largest foundation of its kind in the kingdom, its income bearing comparison with that of the more powerful monasteries. The hospital's cartulary, written in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, is a masterpiece of accuracy and organisation.This edition of the volume containing the hospital's charters for the West and East Ridings of Yorkshire, now in the Bodleian library, is supplemented by material from other cartularies, antiquarian transcripts, and surviving originals. The introduction discusses the production of the cartulary, and the fate of the hospital's archive after the Dissolution. An appendix gives biographical details for the masters, and there are extensive editorial notes on the landholdings and the families appearing in the documents.David X. Carpenter now works on the charters of William II and Henry I at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.