Seventeenth-Century Parliamentary and Financial Papers
The Camden volumes, published by the Royal Historical Society, offer collections of skilfully edited primary source material for historians. The Camden Miscellany collections contain a variety of shorter documents and papers. This volume comprises seventeenth-century documents on parliamentary and financial matters. These include the parliamentary papers of Nicholas Ferrar (1624), the letters of Sir Cheney Culpeper (1641–57) and the assessment lists for the Cromwellian decimation tax of 1655.
- An established series which no serious academic library or practising historian should be without
- Was the first-time appearance of manuscripts in printed and written form
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June 2011Paperback
9780521281317
500 pages
216 × 140 × 28 mm
0.63kg
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Table of Contents
- Part I. The Parliamentary Papers of Nicholas Ferrar, 1624, ed. David R. Ransome: Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Editorial conventions
- The Parliamentary Papers of Nicholas Ferrar 1624
- i. Nicholas Ferrar's diary, 12 February – 5 March 1623/4
- ii. Speeches in committee
- A. Touching the pppressions in matter of tobacko
- B. Fragment of a speech by Lord Cavendish 28 April 1624
- iii. Nicholas Ferrar's diary, May 1624
- Appendix I: Other diaries of proceedings in the House of Commons, 1624
- Appendix II: Parliament men mentioned in Nicholas Ferrar's diary
- Part II. The Letters of Sir Cheney Culpeper, 1641–57, ed. M. J. Braddick and Mark Greengrass: Preface
- Abbreviations
- Genealogical table: The immediate family of Sir Cheney Culpeper
- Introduction
- The letters of Sir Cheney Culpeper (1641–57)
- Index
- Part III. The Cromwellian Decimation Tax of 1655. The Assessment Lists, ed. J. T. Cliffe: Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Appendix: Expenditure on the County Militia
- The Decimation Lists.