Seventeenth-Century Parliamentary and Financial Papers
The Camden volumes, published by the Royal Historical Society, offer collections of skillfully 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.
- 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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"...the letters provide a marvelous insight into the life and interests of a country squire during two of England's most tumultuous decades." Marl E. Kennedy, Albion
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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.