Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700.

Foreword; Preface; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Ceremony and the citizen: The communal year at Coventry1450-1550; 3 The trade gilds of Tudor York; 4 The migrant in Kentish towns 1580-1640; 5 Poverty and politics in Salisbury 1597-1666; 6 Politics in Chester during the Civil Wars and the Interregnum1640-62; 7 East London housing in the seventeenth century; 8 A provincial capital in the late seventeenth century: Thecase of Norwich; 9 London merchants and the crisis of the 1690S; Index.

This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at teh end of the Middle Ages to the influence of war on London Merchant class at the end of the seventeenth century. This book was first published in 1972.

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