Description:
England in the Seventeenth Century by Maurice AshleyPublication Date: reprinted 1967
Publisher: Pelican
Penguin # A268
Paperback
4.4 x 7.1 inches, 272 pages
Maurice Percy Ashley CBE (4 September 1907 – 26 September 1994) was a British historian of the 17th Century and editor of The Listener. He published over thirty books, of which his Financial and Commercial Policy Under the Commonwealth Protectorate (1934) achieved wide academic influence, while his biographies Cromwell (1937) and General Monck (1976) received particular praise.