Early-Stuart Mariners and Shipping

The Maritime Surveys of Devon and Cornwall 1619-35
Erscheinungsjahr 1990
ISBN: 978-0-901853-33-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 200 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Devon and Cornwall Record Society

This volume contains all the surviving early-Stuart surveys of Mariners and Shipping for Devon and Cornwall, including a hitherto unknown one of south Devon discovered in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge. From parish to parish, all along the coasts of the two counties and in some cases far inland, the seafaring population is delineated. There are about 6000 names in all, a source for social and maritime historians and especially valuable for family historians in the two counties. Nearly unique in its time as an 'occupation census', the information provides rare glimpses into local life. Included in the Introduction is an analysis of contemporary ships' names.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Todd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Gray, Todd
TODD GRAY MBE is Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and the author or editor of a number of volumes on Exeter and Devon including William Birchynshaw's Map of Exeter, 1743 and The Chronicle of Exeter, 1205-1722.