Family and Society in Early Stuart Glamorgan: the Household Accounts of Sir Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd, c. 1565-1641

£22.00

South Wales Record Society publication no. 19
Edited by Lloyd Bowen
Published 2006
ISBN 0 9525961 9 9 (hardback)

Description

A transcript with scholarly commentary of the household accounts of Sir Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd from the 1620s and 1630s. This book gives insights into the social and cultural worlds inhabited by a prominent member of the gentry during the early seventeenth century.

Reviews:
Matthew Griffiths in Morganwg: ‘Bowen’s introduction provides both a minute analysis of the accounts and a broader, extremely informative discussion of the Aubreys’ place in county society. As such, it offers a highly original slant on a much explored theme … It is a book that is a pleasure to read and to handle’