Tudor and Stuart Devon: The Common Estate and Government

ISBN-13: 9780859893848 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 208 str.

Todd Gray; Margery Rowe; Audrey Erskine

Opis

A collection of essays on the theme of Tudor and Stuart Devon. Subjects studied include Katherine Courtney, Countess of Devon; tinworking in four Devon stannaries; the legislative activities of local MPs during the reign of Elizabeth; landed society and the emergence of the country house; North Devon maritime enterprise; English wine imports, with special reference to the Devon ports- fishing and the commercial world of early Stuart Dartmouth; the clergy in Devon, 1641-1661.