Seventeenth-Century Political and Financial Papers: Camden Miscellany XXXIII: 7 (Camden Fifth Series, Series Number 7)

David Ransome
Cambridge University Press, 6/9/2011
EAN 9780521281317, ISBN10: 0521281318

Paperback, 500 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm
Language: English

The Camden volumes, published by the Royal Historical Society, offer collections of skilfully edited primary source material for historians. The Camden Miscellany collections contain a variety of shorter documents and papers. This volume comprises seventeenth-century documents on parliamentary and financial matters. These include the parliamentary papers of Nicholas Ferrar (1624), the letters of Sir Cheney Culpeper (1641–57) and the assessment lists for the Cromwellian decimation tax of 1655.

Part I. The Parliamentary Papers of Nicholas Ferrar, 1624, ed. David R. Ransome
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Editorial conventions
The Parliamentary Papers of Nicholas Ferrar 1624
i. Nicholas Ferrar's diary, 12 February – 5 March 1623/4
ii. Speeches in committee
A. Touching the pppressions in matter of tobacko
B. Fragment of a speech by Lord Cavendish 28 April 1624
iii. Nicholas Ferrar's diary, May 1624
Appendix I
Other diaries of proceedings in the House of Commons, 1624
Appendix II
Parliament men mentioned in Nicholas Ferrar's diary
Part II. The Letters of Sir Cheney Culpeper, 1641–57, ed. M. J. Braddick and Mark Greengrass
Preface
Abbreviations
Genealogical table
The immediate family of Sir Cheney Culpeper
Introduction
The letters of Sir Cheney Culpeper (1641–57)
Index
Part III. The Cromwellian Decimation Tax of 1655. The Assessment Lists, ed. J. T. Cliffe
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Appendix
Expenditure on the County Militia
The Decimation Lists.