The English Commonwealth, 1547-1640 : essays in politics and society presented to Joel Hurstfield by CLARK, Peter [ Various Contributors ] - 1979

Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1979. CONTENTS: Reform and the 'commonwealth-men' of Edward VI's reign / by G.R. Elton.The downfall of Archbishop Grindal and its place in Elizabethan political and ecclesiastical history / by Patrick Collinson. The Anjou match and the making of Elizabethan foreign policy / by Wallace T. MacCaffrey. Popular puritan mentality in late Elizabethan England / by Nicholas Tyacke. Militia rates and militia statutes 1558-1663 / by A. Hassell Smith. Crown, parliament and finance: the great contract of 1610 / by Alan G.R. Smith. Staging a parliament in early Stuart England / by Elizabeth Read Foster. The parliamentary career of John Pym, 1621-9 by Conrad Russell. 'The Ramoth-Gilead of the good': urban change and political radicalism at Gloucester 1540-1640 / by Peter Clark. Palatine performance in the seventeenth century / by W.J. Jones. The historical writings of Joel Hurstfield, 1944 to 1978 / by Joan Henderson. ; 274p ; 24cm. Bibliography: p.205-214. - Includes index. A nice clean copy in a very similar dust jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.