Description

This book portrays a vigorous rural community which lived almost two centuries ago. It is based on the personal accounts of over one hundred of his parishioners written by the rector of Wortham, Richard Cobbold (author of The History of Margaret Catchpole), supplemented by standard sources such as census returns and parish registers. As a piece of social and economic history, and as a record publication, it should be of lasting value to historians of all kinds as well as to general readers. Included are many coloured portraits which Cobbold himself painted of his parishioners and of the houses in which they lived.