Register of Thetford Priory, The

The annual expenditure accounts recorded in this Register provide a marvellously complete picture of a Cluniac monastery during its last 60 years.This edition publishes the accounts for the years 1518-1540, in which can be traced Thetford Priory's strenuous attempts to survive. The volume also contains biographical and other appendices and full indexes.Part 1 (019-7261604), which covers the period
1482-1517, and Part 2 together provide an invaluable resource for historians of Norfolk and of monastic life in the run up to the Reformation.