List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: The History of the City Walls
Introduction
1. The Nature of the City Defences
2. Purpose and Function
3. Maintainance and Repair
4. The City Defences under the Tudors
5. The City Defences under the Early Stuarts
Conclusion
Suggested Further Reading
Part II: Documents Relating to the City Walls
Introduction
The Exeter Receivers and their Accounts
Editorial Conventions
1. Extracts from the City Receivers' Accounts, 1482-1660
2. Expenses in Repelling Perkin Warbeck, 1497
3. Extracts from the Chamber Act Books, 1511-1545
4. Purchase of Ordnance for the City, 1545
5. Expenses in the 'Commotion', 1549
6. List of the City Ordnance, 1556
7. Instructions for the Defence of the City, 1643
8. List of the City Ordnance, 1643, Annual Expenditure on the City Defences, 1485-1660
Glossary of Terms used in the Documents
Abbreviations
Notes
Indexes
Places and Subjects
Persons
Mark Stoyle is Professor of early modern history at the University of Southampton. He specialises in early modern British history, with particular research interests in the 'British crisis' of the 1640s; cultural, ethnic and religious identity in Wales and Cornwall between 1450 and 1700; and popular memory of the English Civil War from 1660 to the present day.
'The general subject needs detailed local studies of this sort to
illuminate the wider picture and stimulate the posing of useful
questions elsewhere. Early modern urban, military and social
history will all benefit.' (Robert Higham, Senior Lecturer in
Archaeology, University of Exeter)
'It will provide the most comprehensive study to date of the
fortifications of an early modern English city. Its inclusion of
transcripts of the very valuable information found in the city
Receiver's Accounts, as well as some useful subsidiary documents,
will be especially welcome. Such documentary detail is not
available elsewhere, so both historians and military enthusiasts
will benefit from being able to peruse transcripts of the original
records.' (Maryanne Kowaleski, Professor of History, Fordham
University, New York)
'…the book’s significance lies in revealing how the medieval
concept of the walled city remained active in the minds of 16th and
17th century Exonians as a symbol both of defence, civic pride and
prestige.' (Andrew Saunders, Casemate, Jan 2004)
‘Mark Stoyle’s important volume, in presenting the first detailed
account of the defences of an early modern English city (and indeed
one of the most significant document-based studies of the defences
of any British town) succeeds in overturning
many………preconceptions’.
‘A valuable scene-setting description of Exeter’s defensive
topography emphasises that the city’s fortifications comprised far
more than the wall and gates, but a multi-layered defensive belt
stretching from an intra-mural route to the outer lip of the city
ditch’ (Oliver Creighton, Sixteenth Century Journal)
‘…town defences have been something of the poor relations to
castles. Mark Stoyle’s superb new book emphatically demonstrates
that this need no longer be the case. Presenting a detailed yet
lively social and military history of Exeter’s city walls in the
Tudor and Early Stuart periods, Circled with Stone can be regarded
as a major case study that will have a profound impact on our
understanding of urban defences far beyond the city which it
immediately deals.’ (Post Medieval Archaeology, Vol 38.2 for
2004)
‘The book is beautifully produced, with some superb colour plates
of early modern maps of the city, and the main chapters are
preceded by an immensely useful ‘tour’ of the walls. These
qualities mean that it is attractive to many types of reader.’
(Post Medieval Archaeology, Vol 38.2 for 2004) ‘This
attractively produced volume… The volume is both a labour of love
by a citizen of Exeter who has become one of the most distinguished
historians of the south west, and an act of homage to a friendship
which crossed interdisciplinary lines. It is the fruit of
historical scholarship and archaeological engagement.’ (Journal of
Regional and Local Studies, 22.2: Spring 2003)
'Among the plates are an exceptional series of maps, reproduced in
colour, which testify to the importance of the walls and to the
pride which the leaders of the community retained in them.’
(Journal of Regional and Local Studies, 22.2: Spring 2003)
‘This volume does more than the modest claims of its author and
publisher set out. They are to be congratulated on producing an
important and attractive volume.’ (Journal of Regional and Local
Studies, 22.2: Spring 2003)
‘This handsomely produced book comprises two major sections, a
history of the city walls and a series of original documents … The
book is beautifully and informatively illustrated … This is a
social history of the walls which refracts the history of the
community encircled by them.’ (History, Volume 90 Issue 1 Number
297 January 2005)
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