Bloody Marsh A Seventeenth-Century Village in Crisis |
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| Author:
| Warner, Peter
Catling, Nick |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9538630-1-3 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2000 |
| Publisher: | Windgather Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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`A story of rising poverty, enclosure, accusations of rape, and the brutal confrontation of the landed and the dispossessed'. What began as a dispute over grazing rights in the village of Walberswick in Suffolk in April 1644, led to the death of a man and the subsequent hanging of three others.
`A story of rising poverty, enclosure, accusations of rape, and the brutal confrontation of the landed and the dispossessed'. What began as a dispute over grazing rights in the village of Walberswick in Suffolk in April 1644, led to the death of a man and the subsequent hanging of three others.