Crisis and Order in English Towns, 1500-1700: Essays in Urban History

Abstract

1. Introduction, Peter Clark & Paul Slack 2. Ceremony and Citizen: the communal year at Coventry 1450-1550, Charles Phythian-Adams 3. The trade gilds of Tudor York, D.M. Palliser 4. The migrant in Kentish towns 1580-1640, Peter Clark 5. Poverty and politics in Salisbury 1597-1666, Paul Slack 6. Politics in Chester during the Civil Wars and Interegnum 1640-62, A.M. Johnson 7. East London housing in the seventeenth century, M. J. Power 8. A provincial capital in the late seventeenth century: The case of Norwich, Penelope Corfield 9. London merchants and the crisis of the 1690s, D. W. Jones