Tudor And Stuart Devon: The Common Estate and Government

A collection of essays on various parts of the history of Devon in the Tudor and Stuart period, this volume includes a colour reproduction and a chapter discussing the significance of a newly discovered 16th-century map of Exeter. Other subjects include Katherine Courtenay, Countess of Devon; tinworking in four Devon stannaries; the legislative activities of Devon’s MPs during the reign of Elizabeth I; 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; and the clergy in Devon, 1641-1661.