Norfolk Pauper Inventories, c.1690-1834

Joseph Harley is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Derby. He held an Economic History Society fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London and has previously taught at the University of Leicester and Loughborough University. He is an expert in poverty, consumption and welfare in Britain during the long eighteenth century (c.1650-1850) and has published articles in Historical Journal, Social History, and Continuity and Change.

List of figures and maps
Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Pauper inventories as a historical source
The context and practice of making pauper inventories
Legality of the practice
Parish motives to make pauper inventories
Conclusion
The sample of Norfolk inventories
The sample
Geographical and socio-economic distribution of pauper inventories
Chronological distribution of pauper inventories
Types of paupers whose goods were inventoried
Conclusion
The structure and content pauper inventories
Layout and format
Representativeness of items recorded in pauper inventories
Usefulness of pauper inventories for studying material life
Conclusion
Transcription conventions and editorial principles
Pauper inventories
Ashwellthorpe
Besthorpe
Bressingham
Brockdish
Bunwell
Carbrooke
Cawston
Forncett St. Peter
Gissing
Hapton
East Harling
West Harling
Hilgay
Hingham
Holme-next-the-Sea
Hopton
Horningtoft
Ingworth
Letton
Loddon
Martham
Great Moulton with Little Moulton
Norwich, St. Mary in the Marsh
Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell
Shelton
Shimpling
Shipdham
Stratton St. Mary
Surlingham
Tharston
Trowse
Wighton
Winfarthing
Yelverton with Alpington
Appendices
Appendix 1: List of pauper inventories by settlement
Appendix 2: List of pauper inventories by surname
Appendix 3: List of pauper inventories by date
Glossary of inventory terms
Primary sources
Bibliography