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Urban Government and the Early Stuart State - Provincial Towns, Corporate Liberties, and Royal Authority in England, 1603-1640 (Hardcover)
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Urban Government and the Early Stuart State - Provincial Towns, Corporate Liberties, and Royal Authority in England, 1603-1640 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
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Examines relations between centre and localities in seventeenth
century England by looking at early Stuart government through the
lens of provincial towns. This book investigates relations between
centre and localities in seventeenth century England by looking at
early Stuart government through the lens of provincial towns.
Focusing particularly on incorporated boroughs, it emphasises the
distinctive circumstances that shaped governance in provincial
towns and the ways towns contributed to the state. Royal charters
of incorporation legally defined patterns of self-government and
local liberties in corporate boroughs, but they also created a
powerful bond to the crown. The book argues that a dynamic tension
between local autonomy and connection to the centre drove relations
between towns and the crown in this period, as borough governments
actively sought strong ties with central authority while also
attempting to preserve their chartered liberties. It also argues
that the 1620s and 1630s ushered in new patterns in the crown's
relations with incorporated boroughs, as Charles I's regime
hardened policies towards urban localities. Based on extensive
original research in both central government records and the
archives of a wide range of provincial towns, the book covers
critical aspects of interaction between towns and the crown,
including incorporation and charters, governance and political
order, social regulation, trade, financial and military exactions,
and religion.
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