The Great Blow - Examinations and Informations Relating to the Great Blow in Norwich, 1648: Volume 82 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0995773610 ISBN 13: 9780995773615

Publisher: Norfolk Record Society, 2018

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Norfolk Record Society
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0995773610
• ISBN 13: 9780995773615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 231
• Editor: Hopper Andrew, Agnew Jean, Alley Emily Wilbur