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Town Mice and Country Mice in the Province of York 1317–40

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Rosalind M. T. Hill
Rosalind M. T. Hill*
Affiliation:
University of London Westfield College
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A few months after the end of the second world war a journalist, walking through the streets of devastated Hamburg, saw a girl come out of the basement of a bombed house. She was wearing a clean white tennis-dress and carrying a racquet, and as she picked her way through the piles of burnt-out rubble he pondered, as historians have often pondered before him, upon the remarkable capacity of people not only for surviving, but for continuing the ordinary pattern of their lives, in the most adverse circumstances. I have often remembered that girl in Hamburg as I worked my way through the letters of archbishop Melton’s register with its record of the way in which the ordinary people of the north, the town and country mice of my title, survived and carried on their normal activities, and even re-built and extended their churches, in the midst of the troubles in which they found themselves.

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Research Article
Information
Studies in Church History , Volume 16: The Church in Town and Countryside , 1979 , pp. 201 - 205
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1979

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References

1 R[egister of Archbishop William] M[elton], Borthwick Institute, York. Foliated twice, new foliation indicated as NF, fol 495v (NF 623).

2 CYS 70 (1977) pp 37, 58. Compare RM fol 517v (NF 648).

3 Ibid p 39.

4 Ibid p 107.

5 RM fols 536v-7 (NF 671-2).

6 Ibid fol 518 (NF 650), fol 551v (NF 688).

7 Ibid fol 549v (NF 686).

8 Historiae Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres, ed Raine, J., SS 9 (1839) p 100 Google Scholar.

9 CYS 70 p 71.

10 Ibid p 95.

11 Ibid p 16.

12 Ibid p 58.

13 RM fol 534 (NF 669).

14 CYS 70 pp 2, 25, 119, 57.

15 RM fol 514 (NF 643).

16 Ibid fols 518v-19 (NF 650-1).

17 Ibid fol 536 (NF 671), fol 539 (NF 674).

18 Ibid fol 512 (NF 640), fol 525 (NF 658).

19 Ibid fol 544v (NF 680).

20 Ibid fol 518v (NF 650).

21 Ibid fol 529v (NF 664).

22 CYS 70 p 77.

23 Ibid p 34.

24 Ibid p 49.

25 RM fol 517 (NF 648).

26 CYS 70 p 106.

27 RM fol 539v (NF 674).

28 CYS 70 pp 16-17.

29 RM fol 533 (NF 668).

30 Ibid fol 541v (NF 676bis).

31 CYS 70 p 134.

32 RM fol 511 (NF 639).

33 Ibid.

34 Ibid fol 551v (NF 650).

35 Ibid fol 551v (NF 688).

36 Ibid fol 505v (NF 633).

37 Ibid fol 506 (NF 634).

38 Ibid fol 537v (NF 672).