Circled With Stone

Mark Stoyle

Description

Winner of the Devon Book of the Year Award 2003, Circled with Stone is the most comprehensive study to date of the fortifications of an early modern English city. The culmination of some twenty years of archaeological and documentary research, it provides a richly detailed portrait of the ancient system of walls, towers and gates which ringed the city of Exeter during the Tudor and early Stuart periods. The book traces the development of the fortifications over time, explores the many purposes which they served, and shows how they were defended against a series of major attacks: most notably during the Prayer Book rebellion of 1549 and the English Civil War.

The text is accompanied by a series of extensive transcripts from Exeter's matchless civic archives, including two newly-discovered documents relating to the Prayer Book rebellion. The book includes a wealth of illustrations and brings together, for the very first time, colour reproductions of all the early maps of Exeter, as well as a series of specially commissioned photographs of the city walls today. Designed to be accessible to the general reader, as well as to the specialist, Circled with Stone paints a uniquely vivid picture of the role which urban fortifications played in everyday life in one of early modern England's greatest cities.

Richly detailed, fully illustrated and accessible to the general reader as well as of interest to historians and archaeologists.

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: The History of the City Walls

Introduction

1. The Nature of the City Defences

2. Purpose and Function

3. Maintainance and Repair

4. The City Defences under the Tudors

5. The City Defences under the Early Stuarts

Conclusion

Suggested Further Reading

Part II: Documents Relating to the City Walls

Introduction

The Exeter Receivers and their Accounts

Editorial Conventions

1. Extracts from the City Receivers' Accounts, 1482-1660

2. Expenses in Repelling Perkin Warbeck, 1497

3. Extracts from the Chamber Act Books, 1511-1545

4. Purchase of Ordnance for the City, 1545

5. Expenses in the 'Commotion', 1549

6. List of the City Ordnance, 1556

7. Instructions for the Defence of the City, 1643

8. List of the City Ordnance, 1643, Annual Expenditure on the City Defences, 1485-1660

Glossary of Terms used in the Documents

Abbreviations

Notes

Indexes

Places and Subjects

Persons

Sujets

• Social History
• urban planning
• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Stuart period
• Roman walls
• Devonshire
• Tudor period
• Modern history
• History of the British Isles
• English Civil War
• Devon (comté)
• Exeter
• Devon

Informations

• Publié par: University of Exeter Press
• Date de parution: 02 mars 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780859899079
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 34 Mo

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The Nature of the City’s Defences

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The Nature of the City’s Defences

CIRCLED WITH STONE

EXETER’S CITY WALLS 1485–1660

Mark Stoyle

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First published in 2003 by University of Exeter Press Reed Hall, Streatham Drive Exeter, Devon EX4 4QR UK www.ex.ac.uk/uep/

© Mark Stoyle 2003

The right of Mark Stoyle to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 0 85989 727 3

Typeset in New Baskerville 11/13 by Exe Valley Dataset Ltd, Exeter

Printed in Great Britain by Short Run Press Ltd, Exeter

The Nature of the City’s Defences

To Chris Henderson, in memoriam 1946–2001

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List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements

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CONTENTS

Part I: The History of the City Walls Introduction The Nature of the City Defences Purpose and Function Maintenance and Repair The City Defences under the Tudors The City Defences under the Early Stuarts Conclusion Suggestions for Further Reading

Part II: Documents Relating to the City Walls Introduction The Exeter Receivers and their Accounts Editorial Conventions Extracts from the City Receivers’ Accounts, 1485–1660

Expenses in Repelling Perkin Warbeck, 1497

Extracts from the Chamber Act Books, 1511–1545

Purchase of Ordnance for the City, 1545

Expenses in the ‘Commotion’, 1549

List of the City Ordnance, 1556

Instructions for the Defence of the City, 1643 List of the City Ordnance, 1643 Annual Expenditure on the City Defences, 1485–1660 Table 197 Graph Glossary of Terms used in the Documents

The Nature of the City’s Defences

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