The Isle of Wight, 1558-1642
The Isle of Wight, 1558-1642
One of the main features of this period was the notable growth of the town of Newport which nearly trebled its-population and acquired a new town hall, new school, new harbour installations, and a mayoral charter.One unusual quality of the Island's social structure was the absence of a landed aristocratic family. The Tudor policy of withholding sales of royal land in the Island contributed towards a rigid and introverted social structure, but the accelerating sales of farms and manors under the early Stuarts introduced fluidity with many new owners coming in. One of the main Tudor industries, leather processing, faded away in the 1600s, probably because the rapidly dwindling woodland cut supplies of oak bark for tanning. The rapid collapse of the Royalist cause on the Island in 1642 is attributable to the town of Newport, with its radical puritan character, which served as a focus for Parliamentarian support.
University of Southampton
Jones, Jack D
334c78f4-4eeb-4a5f-b201-cb6fdde8e97a
1978
Jones, Jack D
334c78f4-4eeb-4a5f-b201-cb6fdde8e97a
Jones, Jack D
(1978)
The Isle of Wight, 1558-1642.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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One of the main features of this period was the notable growth of the town of Newport which nearly trebled its-population and acquired a new town hall, new school, new harbour installations, and a mayoral charter.One unusual quality of the Island's social structure was the absence of a landed aristocratic family. The Tudor policy of withholding sales of royal land in the Island contributed towards a rigid and introverted social structure, but the accelerating sales of farms and manors under the early Stuarts introduced fluidity with many new owners coming in. One of the main Tudor industries, leather processing, faded away in the 1600s, probably because the rapidly dwindling woodland cut supplies of oak bark for tanning. The rapid collapse of the Royalist cause on the Island in 1642 is attributable to the town of Newport, with its radical puritan character, which served as a focus for Parliamentarian support.
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Published date: 1978
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