CHESHIRE AND THE TUDOR STATE 1480-1560 (STUDIES IN HISTORY)
Written by Tim Thornton
Published by The Boydell Press
in 2000
ISBN: 086193248X
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- NORTH WEST UK
- CHESHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- TUDOR
- POLITICS
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CHESHIRE AND THE TUDOR STATE 1480-1560 (STUDIES IN HISTORY)
Written by Tim Thornton.
Stock no. 1829618
1st.
2000.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
This book asserts the importance of the semi-autonomous political, administrative and judicial system of the palatinate of Chester, and of other similar jurisdictions, in the early Tudor period. Grey cloth boards, red title to spine. xii and 320 pages including index. ISBN: 086193248X. Boards clean and bright. Initials and date in ink to top corner of front endpaper. Else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is slightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction: the historiography of centralisation and the palatinate in the fifteenth century
- 1 The aristocracy and gentry of Cheshire
- Part I: The Palatinate: Alive and Active
- 2 The political culture of the palatinate
- 3 The Chester mise: taxation in an autonomous county
- 4 The Chester council and exchequer: powerful local institutions
- Part II: Development and Change
- 5 The Westminster and other external law courts
- 6 Parliament and legislation
- 7 The officers of the palatinate
- Part III: Politics and Provincial Privilege
- 8 Henry VII and the palatinate
- 9 Wolsey, Cromwell and Cheshire politics, 1509-1536
- 10 The late 1530s and after