Financial record-keeping at Canterbury Cathedral in the late 17th century

At the St Katherine’s Audit each November in the late seventeenth century, the Dean and Chapter drew up an account of the Cathedral’s wealth in a single sheet document headed ‘The State of the Church’. The Cathedral Archives has a continuous series of these records from 1679 to 1712 (DCc/SC1-32; 1680 is missing). Each of the…