Author: John TroutbeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A Survey of the Ancient and Present State of the Scilly Islands
Author: John TroutbeckA view of the present state of the Scilly islands
Author: George WoodleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scilly, Isles of (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Notes and Queries
Author: Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea
Author: David CressyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192863398
Category : Salvage
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, the economy of scavenging, and the law of 'wreck of the sea' from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the end of the reign of George II. England's coastlines were heavily trafficked by naval and commercial shipping, but an unfortunate percentage was cast away or lost. Shipwrecks were disasters for merchants and mariners, but opportunities for shore dwellers. As the proverb said, it was an ill wind that blew nobody any good. Lords of manors, local officials, officers of the Admiralty, and coastal commoners competed for maritime cargoes and the windfall of wreckage, which they regarded as providential godsends or entitlements by right. A varied haul of commodities, wines, furnishings, and bullion came ashore, much of it claimed by the crown. The people engaged in salvaging these wrecks came to be called 'wreckers', and gained a reputation as violent and barbarous plunderers. Close attention to statements of witnesses and reports of survivors shows this image to be largely undeserved. Dramatic evidence from previously unexplored manuscript sources reveals coastal communities in action, collaborating as well as competing, as they harvested the bounty of the sea.
A Catalogue of Twenty-five Thousand Volumes of Choice, Useful, and Curious Books
Author: John Russell SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Catalogue of Books, English and Foreign
Author: Catalogue of Books ...
Author: William BrownThe Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of England and Wales
Author: Glyn Edmund DanielPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom
Author: Benjamin Pitts CapperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
Book Description