The History of Hitchin

Reginald L. Hine

George Allen & Unwin

Volume I  1927

Volume II  1929

This is a major town history, in two volumes, of  over 900 pages, with a fair number of photographs and drawings. It is an essential reference work for anyone whose ancestors come from the area.

See also Reginald Hine Publication List

Kershaw's Hitchin Coach, 1850

VOLUME I

  • Introduction

  • The Manor

  • The Church

  • The Priory

  • The Biggin

  • The Civil War and Commonwealth

  • The Churchwarden

  • The Poor

  • The Highways and Byways

  • Bibliography

  • List of Subscribers

 

 

VOLUME II

  • Minsden Chapel

  • The Baptists

  • The Congregationalists

  • The Quakers

  • Sports and Pastimes

  • Crime and Punishment

  • Wills and Testaments

  • Places-names, field-names and surnames

  • The Fire Brigade

  • Hitchin Chronology

  • Conclusion

APPENDICES

  • List of Vicars

  • List of those who fell in the Great War

  • Addenda and Corrigenda, Volume I

  • Bibliography

  • Supplementary List of Subscribers

  • Index

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Samuel Spavold

A Mirror for the Society of Friends

Being the story of the Hitchin Quakers

Reginald L. Hine

First published as a chapter in The History of Hitchin, 1929

Second revised edition, 1930

 

See Book Survey of Hertfordshire Quakers


 

Nos 86-90 Bancroft - Showing Mercy Ransom's House

 
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July 2010   Book - A Mirror - added, plus reformatting