Sir Hugh Cholmley played many roles in an extraordinary life, transforming himself from a spendthrift play-boy into a successful estate manager, local militia officer, and member of parliament for Scarborough. He became identified with a parliamentary group of rebellious Yorkshire gentry who conspired to kill Charles I's chief minister, the earl of Strafford, but after holding Scarborough's harbour and castle for Parliament he suddenly and controversially defected to the Royalist cause; after the king's defeat he endured years in exile before returning to a ruined estate in Yorkshire. Dr Binns' book is the first to bring together Sir Hugh's surviving writings, which bear witness to some of the most momentous events in English history: of principal importance are his autobiography and his three Civil War essays on the tragic fate of the Hothams, the bloody battle on Marston Moor, and the great siege of Scarborough Castle. JACK BINNS is former history master at Scarborough Sixth Form College, and Scarborough in the Civil War period has been the focus of much of his research as a local historian.

The Memoirs and Memorials of Sir Hugh Cholmley of Whitby 1600-1657

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Yorkshire Archaeological Society

1968-1970 Excavations in the Vicus at Malton, North Yorkshire (Yorkshire Archaeological Society Reports)

History

Leslie Peter Wenham

B. Heywood

Ancient Civilizations

Anyone interested in the domestic system of cloth manufacture will find this publication a treasure house of insight. ALBION Will become an important source for historians of the wool textile industries in the eighteenth century... Brearley's idiosyncratic jottings, far rarer as those of a skilled artisan than the more usual observations of a merchant or early factory owner, provide an uncommon chronicle of a key region on the brink of great change... Textile historians are greatly in Smail's debt. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW This edition of the memorandum books of John Brearley of Wakefield provides a fascinating insight into the economic and social conditions prevalent in West Yorkshire in the middle of the eighteenth century. Brearley worked in Wakefield as a cloth frizzer, operating a mill which put a fine raised nap on woollen cloth by running it between two boards covered with sand. Many of the entries in his memorandum book reflect his familiarity with the region's woollen and worsted industries, covering all aspects of the trade, from directions for making particular kinds of cloth or dyeing a particular colour, to descriptions of merchants' activities, and the markets, domestic and foreign, where they bought and sold cloth. Brearley's work as a frizzer underlies the many entries describing machines and inventions (some more practical than others) which are described and often drawn in these pages. Still other entries - ranging from recipes for ketchup and bread, to get-rich-quick schemes, to observations on women, drinking, and the marital habits of merchants - provide a flavour of life in the pre-industrial north at the beginning of George III's reign.JOHN SMAIL teaches history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Woollen Manufacturing in Yorkshire: The Memorandum Books of John Brearley, Cloth Frizzer at Wakefield, 1758-1762 (Yorkshire Archaeological Soc Record Series) (Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record)

Business & Money

John Smail

Economics

The passage of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act created an immense archive of letters, reports and memos from the responsible bodies. The papers form part of the huge Ministry of Health archive held at the National Archives at Kew, where the lack of an effective index or list of contents hinders access to this key resource. Thus Paul Carter's transcription of the Bradford Poor Law Union correspondence is the first regional collection to have been fully transcribed, and from it can be seen the wealth of social and historical detail contained in the papers. The Bradford material contains the raw data for this highly detailed investigation into the changes from the 'old' to the 'new' poor law system in one of the fastest growing urban centres in England. Chapters cover local and national relief provision, and the full remit of poor law concerns from individual pauper cases and workhouse provision to alarm in relation to the growth of radical working class ideas and the anti-Poor Law riots in the town. Transcriptions of the surviving assizes court material are also included. Dr PAUL CARTER works at the National Archives. He previously lectured on modern British history at Birkbeck College London.

Bradford Poor Law Union: Papers and Correspondence with the Poor Law Commission, October 1834 to January 1839 (Parish Register Series)

Meetings such as 'Yorkshire Archaeological Framework Forum Conference' held at Ripon in 1998 provide a good opportunity to reflect on the research carried out in a particular region in the past and present, and in suggesting a direction for future agendas. This volume presents 23 papers including both period-based and thematic studies that reflect the major research projects being carried out in Yorkshire. Some authors identify trends and biases in fieldwork, excavation and research and suggest how these could or should be overcome in the future. The contributors include independent consultants and researchers as well as representatives from major institutions and university departments. Summaries in English, French and German.

The Archaeology of Yorkshire: An assesment at the beginning of the 21st Century

Manby, T. G

Ottaway, Patrick

Moorhouse, Stephen

World

From 1705 to 1709, a legal battle was fought out in the court of exchequer between Thomas, Lord Wharton, and Reginald Marriott Esq. over the lead mines on Grinton moor in Swaledale. In its day this was a cause célèbre due to the high political office occupied by Lord Wharton and because of the vast sums of money that were at stake. Large numbers of local people were drawn in as witnesses on both sides and their testimony provides a fascinating insight into the life of this remote Yorkshire valley in the opening years of the eighteenth century. The book follows the course of the action, step by step, and contains full transcriptions of all the substantive documents in the case, most of which appear here for the first time; it also raises important questions about the truthfulness of witnesses, the process of taking oral evidence, and the likelihood of jury tampering. The result will be of great value not only to historians of the law but to anyone interested in the history of the Yorkshire Dales. Tim Gates works as a field archaeologist and aerial photographer; he has a long-standing interest in cartography and map-making.

`The Great Trial': A Swaledale Lead Mining Dispute in the Court of Exchequer, 1705-1708 (Yorkshire Archaeological Soc Record Series)

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