Download or read book Calendar of Treasury Books 1672 1675 written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Calendar of Treasury Books Preserved in the Public Record Office 1672 1675 written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Calendar of Treasury Books Preserved in the Public Record Office written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward III 1327 1377 16 v written by Great Britain. Court of Chancery and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Earls of Essex written by Robert Bard and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profusely illustrated with rare and unpublished imagesAn extraordinary insight into the Capell familyA tale of plots, intrigue, battles, court cases and family quarrelsA thoroughly researched and very readable account of this astounding family This is the dramatic, often erratic, and at times unbelievable story of the fortunes and misfortunes over 900 years to the present day of one of England’s premier aristocratic families, who in 1661 were given the Earldom of Essex by Charles II. This previously untold story begins just after the Norman Conquest and ends at the present day. Over a period of 400 years, the Capell family built a fortune, and over the next 500 years, lost it due to an incredible number of mistakes, bad judgement calls, and misfortunes. The Earls of Essex examines the rise and fall of this family, providing in-depth analysis and judgement on the reasons behind their decline.

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Download or read book Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts Relating to English Affairs Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Saltpeter written by David Cressy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.' National security depended on control of this organic material - that had both mystical and mineral properties. Derived from soil enriched with dung and urine, it provided the heart or 'mother' of gunpowder, without which no musket or cannon could be fired. Its acquisition involved alchemical knowledge, exotic technology, intrusions into people's lives, and eventual dominance of the world's oceans. The quest for saltpeter caused widespread 'vexation' in Tudor and Stuart England, as crown agents dug in homes and barns and even churches. Governments hungry for it purchased supplies from overseas merchants, transferred skills from foreign experts, and extended patronage to ingenious schemers, while the hated 'saltpetermen' intruded on private ground. Eventually, huge saltpeter imports from India relieved this social pressure, and by the eighteenth century positioned Britain as a global imperial power; the governments of revolutionary America and ancien régime France, on the other hand, were forced to find alternative sources of this treasured substance. In the end, it was only with the development of chemical explosives in the late Victorian period that dependency on saltpeter finally declined. Saltpeter, the Mother of Gunpowder tells this fascinating story for the first time. Lively and entertaining in its own right, it is also a tale with far-reaching implications. As David Cressy's engaging narrative makes clear, the story of saltpeter is vital not only in explaining the inter-connected military, scientific, and political 'revolutions' of the seventeenth century; it also played a key role in the formation of the centralized British nation state - and that state's subsequent dominance of the waves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Download or read book Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Banking Projecting and Politicking in Early Modern England written by Mabel Winter and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banking, Projecting, and Politicking uncovers a previously understudied and unacknowledged financial institution in late-seventeenth-century England known as Thompson and Company. Whilst the institution has been briefly mentioned in literary studies focusing on the poet and politician Andrew Marvell, it has never been the sole focus of an economic, financial, commercial, or political study in its own right. As such, nothing is known of how it operated, where it sits in the history of English finance, why it collapsed, or what it can tell us about wider Restoration society and its economic and political culture. Through a microhistorical study, the book reconstructs the institution of Thompson and Company, the social networks of its partners, the identity of its creditors, and the events and circumstances that led to its collapse. The book situates the reconstructed institution within its economic, commercial, financial, and political contexts, using the evidence accrued to question the traditional narrative of financial and commercial development, credit systems, the relationship between economics, finance, commerce and politics, and the place of risk and strategy in gendered relations, credit, and social status. The book will be of interest to academics and students in economic history, financial and business history.