If you were found wandering and begging during the period from the 1600s to the 1700s you would be apprehended as a rogue and a vagabond and faced being deported back to your legal place of settlement.
Outbreaks of plague were a common occurrence in England around 1600. How did our predecessors in St Albans cope?
Like many monarchs, Elizabeth I understood the importance of being seen by her subjects, and spent a good deal of time travelling around the kingdom, often visiting places in or near St Albans.
Richard Lee became a powerful figure during the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, becoming their trusted military engineer, ...
Introduction In his article published in 2000 in The English Historical Review, Prof. James Clark considered the effects of the dissolution ...
The so-called Marian survey (in the reign of Queen Mary) was conducted in 1556 on behalf of the Court of Augmentations, which was set up to raise money from the property formerly of dissolved monasteries. This article, by William Page, was first published in the Society's Transactions of 1893-94
17th century St Albans was the childhood home of one of the most acclaimed English painters of his time - William Dobson.
