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The English highland clans : Tudor responses to a mediaeval problem

Title: The English highland clans : Tudor responses to a mediaeval problem / Ralph Robson.
Author: Robson, Ralph.
Publication: Edinburgh : J. Donald Publishers, ©1989.

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Description

viii, 245 pages : maps; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Rise and fall of the English highland clans.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Includes index.
Spine title: The Rise and fall of the English highland clans.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 231-236.

Contents

pt I : The origins and extent of the threat : 1. The Norman liberties of Tynedale and Redesdale -- 2. A taste of prosperity in the Thirteenth Century -- 3. Disaster in the early Fourteenth Century -- 4. Stabilisation under King Edward III -- 5. The Percy connexion in the Fifteenth Century -- 6. A foretaste of anarchy under Henry VII -- 7. The heyday south of the border -- 8. The heyday north of the border -- pt II : From containment through appeasement to elimination : 9. The official hierarchy -- 10. The keeper's posse -- 11. The exaction of securities -- 12. Embroilment -- 13. Swords spiritual and temporal -- 14. Due process of law -- 15. Indulgence, oblivion and salary -- 16. The alternative occupation -- 17. Scorched earth -- 18. Combat -- 19. Value for money -- 20. Relapse -- 21. The final solution -- Appendix : Officers to whom Tyne and Redesdales were subject under Henry VIII.

ISBN

0859762467
9780859762465

LCCN

90113482

OCLC

ocm30702047
30702047
SCSB-1731102

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library