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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> When the ordinances resume at folio 51 the style begins to change possibly reflecting the influence of the new Town Clerk. For instance lists of the names of councillors previously given at the end of most entries occur only twice more; from 1585 the year in figures is added to the regnal year; the name of the mayor is not always given. The last entry of ordinances is in December 1598. There follow three blank pages and then two seventeenth-century additions one dated 1666 the other 1667. The last entry on folio 75 is an oath for schoolmasters written in an earlier hand. Throughout the book there are marginal notes in a hand different from the main text. There are two types of notes. One gives a brief summary of the ordinance and the other gives the words ‘void’ ‘to continue’ or ‘repealed’ against the entry. There is no definite indication as to when this latter type of marginal note was added. (LL)