Financial record-keeping at Canterbury Cathedral in the late 17th century
Seventeenth-century chest in Canterbury Cathedral 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;…