Bloody Marsh. a Seventeenth-Century Village in Crisis

by Peter Warner

A story of rising poverty, enclosure, accusations of rape, and the brutal confrontation of the landed and the dispossessed'. What began as a dispute over grazing rights in the village of Walberswick in Suffolk in April 1644, led to the death of a man and the subsequent hanging of three others. The events of this month are pieced together through primary source material and the events are used as a medium for discussing life in the seventeenth century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0953863018
• ISBN13: 9780953863013
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Windgather Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.6"