Author: Bath. Chamberlain
Publisher: [London] : Printed for subscribers only [by Butler & Tanner]
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Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: Phyllis May Hembry
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838633915
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Beginning in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, members of the English nobility and gentry made a practice of taking relaxation at the country's inland spas. This account shows the spas to have been not only centers of healing and recreating but also venues of intrigue extending to political, religious, economic, and social issues.

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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Author: Robert Tittler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198207184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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This analysis of the secular impact of the Reformation examines the changes within English towns from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century.

Author: Neil Younger
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526130831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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War and politics in the Elizabethan counties reassesses the national war effort during the wars against Spain (1585–1603). Drawing on a mass of hitherto neglected sources, it finds a political system in much better health than has been thought, revising many existing assumptions about the weaknesses of the state in the face of military change. It examines politics and government from the court and privy council to the counties and parishes, assessing the central regime as well as the local machinery of lord lieutenancies which provided troops to fight Elizabeth’s wars and ran the militia which defended against Spanish invasion attempts. The problems of government are assessed in a wide-ranging set of contexts, addressing popular attitudes to the war, government propaganda, local resistance and the problems of governing a country divided in religion. In this way the book covers much more than the war alone, providing a new assessment of the effectiveness of the whole Elizabethan state.

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Category : Somerset (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Annual report and list of subscribers in each vol. (except v. 10, 14).

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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: J. F. D. Shrewsbury
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521022477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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How the black rat introduced the bubonic plague into Britain, and the subsequent effects on social and economic life.

Author: Somerset Record Society
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Douglas Walthew Rice
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838640609
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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This is the first full-length biography of a pillar of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean state. A devoted servant of the Queen, Popham played a prominent part as her Attorney-General and Lord Chief Justice in the famous trials of Essex and Ralegh. He condemned to death the Gunpowder Plotters, and acquired a reputation as a severe judge. Enterprising and practical, he promoted attempts to settle Englishmen in Ireland and to drain the Fens of Cambridgeshire. Popham's final achievement was to establish the Virginia Company and send out an expedition that set afoot the first English colony in New England. Sir John was not only important but also notorious, becoming a legendary bogeyman in popular imagination. Accounts written hitherto have focused on that aspect, but this book aims to give a balanced account, giving credit to Popham as a visionary statesman and creative entrepreneur at the very center of English government. This book is thoroughly illustrated.