Items related to The Great Blow - Examinations and Informations Relating...
The Great Blow - Examinations and Informations Relating to the Great Blow in Norwich, 1648: Volume 82 - Hardcover
Synopsis
On 24th April 1648 a rioting crowd unwittingly unleashed the largest explosion in seventeenth-century England, detonating ninety-eight barrels of powder in the house rented to Norfolk’s County Committee in Norwich. The city magistrates subsequent investigation ensured that the ‘mutiny’, ‘crack’ or ‘blow’ as contemporaries called it, became the best documented riot of the century. This volume publishes in full for the first time the 278 informations and examinations taken in the wake of the ‘Great Blow’. These are among the Norwich City Records collection, itself the largest archive of an early modern English provincial city. These important testimonies constitute the largest single archival collection for the study of popular royalist insurgency in civil-war England.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Search results for The Great Blow - Examinations and Informations Relating...
Stock Image
The Great Blow: Examinations and Informations relating to the Great Blow in Norwich 1648.
Published by
Norfolk Record Society 2018., 2018
ISBN 10: 0995773610
ISBN 13: 9780995773615
Used
Hardcover
Seller: PK Books, Holt, NORFO, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hardcover, as new condition.Burgandy cloth bound with gilt lettering to the spine. Dust jacket in as new condition. Frontispiece: A true relation of the late Great Mutiny which was in the City and County of Norwich. 7 Maps and illustrations. 195 pages. Seller Inventory # 000392